Former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has stated that the opposition coalition leaders have agreed to support anyone who emerges as the presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) for the 2027 general elections.

Naijaonpoint reports that Amaechi made this known on Wednesday while addressing journalists in Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers State.

Amaechi explained that the opposition leaders were optimistic that the process leading to the emergence of the party’s flagbearer would be transparent, free, and fair.

He said, “The moment anybody emerges from the primary, all of us will support; that’s the agreement. We insist on a free and fair, transparent primary.”

The two-term governor of Rivers State also lamented the hunger and hardship ravaging Nigerians in the current administration of President Bola Tinubu.

The former chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) urged every indigene of Rivers State to register under the ADC and sack the ruling APC in the 2027 general elections.

Meanwhile, APC chieftain, Eze Chukwuemeka Eze has dismissed claims that President Tinubu played a significant role in making the late Muhammadu Buhari president.

He stated this while reacting to a statement credited to the Senior Special Assistant to President Bola Tinubu on Media and Publicity, Temitope Ajayi.

Tinubu’s aide claimed in a post on his social media handle that even though Buhari had his “12 million captive Northern votes,” he lost the presidential elections in 2003, 2007, and 2011 before 2015.

“General Buhari would not have won the APC primary election at the Teslim Balogun Stadium, Lagos, in 2014, without President Tinubu, who mobilised the APC governors and the South West delegates to move Buhari’s way,” Ajayi stated.

Reacting via a statement on Tuesday, Eze said there was a need to correct what he described as “erroneous impression”.