Political commentator, Japheth Omojuwa, has asserted that President Bola Tinubu’s record of never losing an election is both a curse and a gift.
Naijaonpoint reports that Omojuwa disclosed this while featuring on Mic One podcast with Nigerian journalist, Seun Okinbaloye.
Omojuwa stated that Tinubu can be beaten in 2027 if he fails to stabilise the country’s economy and dwells too much on his record of not losing an election.
According to Omojuwa, Tinubu must also ensure that his numbers add up politically to avert defeat in 2027.
He said, “Anytime somebody goes into the ring, he can be beaten. I’m a boxing fan and if you get into that ring, you can be beaten.
“Anybody can be beaten. If President Tinubu doesn’t ensure that the Nigerian economy is stable and if he doesn’t do his numbers well with respect to the politics, they will beat him.
“And that’s why he is balancing governance with politics because he knows that anybody can be beaten.
“Tinubu has never lost an election, that’s a gift and a curse a gift because it gives you a sense of invincibility and it’s a curse because if you dwell too much on it, you can get knocked out by a sucker punch.
“Forget Tinubu, anybody who is on the throne is a candidate to beat because people think that it’s about the individual. Go and check the design throughout history, incumbents always win reelection.
“His enemies, those who don’t like him and want to beat him have to think with this understanding in mind that just by the design of incumbency, he is in an advantageous position, by his own personal history of election; he brings out that advantage.”