Minister of Aviation Minister Festus Keyamo, said the political leaders floating coalition platform are targeting electoral fortunes of the 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi.
The opposition coalition has adopted the African Democratic Congress (ADC) as platform to contest the 2027 general elections.
Keyamo who is chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), in a post on X, warned the opposition leaders that if they fail to give Peter Obi the presidential ticket in 2027, they will lose his supporters.
“It is as simple as that. Those who know politics know what I am saying,” he said.
Keyamo described former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and former President of the Senate, David Mark as conspiring to dupe Obi.
“The person whom the old, cunning guards want to take for a ride in all of this is Peter Obi.
“They want his votes, but don’t want to give him their presidential ticket, because this is Atiku’s show simpliciter. That is why David Mark is the interim chairman,” Keyamo stated.
He wondered how “someone who won two regions in the last election – South East and South-South (can be) a running mate to the person who won only one region – North-East?”
The minister said the coalition is a hybrid of Atiku’s faction from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and a few disgruntled APC politicians who left the part after President Bola Tinubu’s emergence.
“This is just Atiku’s faction of PDP in desperate search for the 2027 presidential ticket, nothing more, nothing less.
“The other addition to the so-called ‘coalition’ is a sprinkling of APC members who actually worked against President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the last election and one or two APC leaders who lost their constituencies to opposition parties in 2023,” he said.
He warned that politicians in the coalition belonging to two political parties will be disqualification in an election.
Opposition politicians had on Tuesday, adopted the ADC as the political vehicle for their 2027 campaign.
Mark and former Osun State governor, Rauf Aregbesola, as national chairman and Secretary, respectively of the ADC.
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