Coalition: Atiku, David Mark eyeing Obi votes – Keyamo
Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo has claimed that Peter Obi has the followership that the newly formed political coalition under the African Democratic Congress, ADC, is scheming to use and afterwards dump him.
In a post on X, after the unveiling of the ADC as the official party for coalescing opposition politicians on Tuesday, Keyamo described former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and former Senate President David Mark as cunning guards conspiring to dupe Mr 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,” Mr Keyamo stated.
He added, “Those who know politics know what I am saying. But if you do not give Peter Obi the Presidential ticket, you lose his supporters. It is as simple as that.
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“And how can you make someone who won two regions in the last election (South-East and South-South) a running mate to the person who won only one region (North-East)?”
Describing the coalition as a hybrid of Atiku’s faction from the Peoples Democratic Party and a few disgruntled APC politicians who left the part after Tinubu’s emergence, Keyamo pointed out that “this is just Atiku’s faction of PDP in desperate search for the 2027 presidential ticket—nothing more, nothing less”.
Keyamo explained that “the other addition to the so-called ‘coalition’ is a sprinkling of APC members who actually worked against President Tinubu in the last election and one or two APC leaders who lost their constituencies to opposition parties in 2023”.
He warned that the politicians in the coalition “belonging to two political parties is a ground for disqualification in an election”.
On Tuesday, opposition politicians adopted the ADC as the political vehicle for their 2027 campaign. The new coalition immediately announced Mark and Rauf Aregbesola as its national chairman and national secretary, respectively.
