Politics
2027: G100 leader admits persuading Obi, Atiku to work together difficult
The leader of the G100 political pressure group, Salihu Lukman, has admitted that persuading opposition presidential candidates, including Peter Obi and Atiku Abubakar, to work together ahead of the 2027 election is a difficult task.
Lukman, who is also a chieftain of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), spoke on Arise Television’s Morning Show on Tuesday while discussing the group’s efforts to forge a common front among opposition parties and their presidential candidates.
He said the major challenge was that the leading opposition figures all wanted to become president, while their supporters remained committed to seeing their preferred candidates emerge.
“The point you raise is really a very serious issue, and all that we keep saying, which we emphasise, each one of them wants to be president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, but only one of them can be president,” Lukman said.
He acknowledged that managing the competing ambitions and loyalties within the opposition was “a very difficult task”, but said the G100 was urging both the candidates and their supporters to prioritise the broader objective of defeating the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
According to him, allowing the opposition candidates to contest separately could repeat the outcome of the 2023 presidential election.
“If we encourage them to go in this divided way, we will repeat what happened in 2023 and come back to square one,” he said.
The ADC chieftain argued that the primary objective should be to present a formidable opposition capable of giving Nigerians confidence and challenging President Bola Tinubu and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
“The main opponent is the APC and President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. That is the main opponent. If we encourage them to continue to contest against each other, it will strengthen the main opponent,” he said.
He explained that the G100 was engaging opposition leaders on two fronts: encouraging them to negotiate and produce a common presidential platform, while also developing a shared agenda for governance if they defeat the APC in 2027.
“The second level when they win the election, what are they going to work on? These are the two issues that we are pushing,” Lukman said.
He added that the proposed alliance should go beyond replacing political leaders, insisting that the opposition must explain how it intends to address Nigeria’s problems.
“It’s not about changing faces in government. It’s about also coming up to say, look, at the end of the day, we acknowledge Nigeria is faced with this problem, and this is how we intend to tackle it,” he said.
Lukman said the group had received “encouraging signals” from some opposition leaders and was conscious of the limited time remaining before the 2027 election.
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The African Democratic Congress, ADC, has disclosed plans for the opposition coalition to defeat the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, and unseat President Bola Tinubu in the 2027 general elections.
The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi, while speaking on plans for 2027 and other national issues, said discussions on building a broad opposition coalition ahead of next year’s presidential election are still open.
Abdullahi pointed out that the ADC has the conviction that only a robust and united opposition would have the political capacity to challenge President Tinubu and the ruling party.
While emphasising that the ADC was still interested in bringing opposition groups and political interests together, Abdullahi said the coalition project had not been abandoned.
“We still have not given up the possibility. Don’t forget that we started this coalition building. And we still believe that the window has not closed for the possibility of building a coalition ahead of 2027 because we believe that the opposition stands a better chance if we are all working together,” he said.
The ADC spokesman’s assertion followed the exit of Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, presidential candidate, Peter Obi, and his running mate, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, from the earlier coalition arrangement.
Recall that Obi and Kwankwaso, in May 2025, defected from the ADC to the NDC, citing internal crisis and court cases.
Following their departure, the ADC conducted its primary election and produced a former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, as its flagbearer and thereafter named former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, as running mate.
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The African Democratic Congress, ADC, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has declared that nothing can stop him from winning the 2027 election because he’s full of life and energy.
Atiku said he has contested and lost presidential and governorship elections severally, like the former United States President, Abraham Lincoln.
In an interview with Jaji TV Hausa, Atiku recalled how he contested the governorship seat in Adamawa State four times but the elections were cancelled by the military administration, only for him to win at that fifth attempt.
He said: “I am fit, healthy and full of energy, nothing can stop me. Let me tell you this, long before I ever won a governorship election, I contested four times, and each time the military regimes cancelled the process.
“It was only on my fifth attempt that I succeeded and became Vice President of Nigeria. This is nothing new in politics. How many times did Abraham Lincoln lose elections before he finally became President of the United States?”
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