2027 Elections: PDP in Trouble as Saraki Predicts Major Defections

Even as efforts to reposition the party ahead of the general elections in 2027 continue, Bukola Saraki, the chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, or PDP, Reconciliation Committee, says additional defections from the party are likely to occur.

This was stated by the former Senate President on Friday during his appearance on Arise TV’s “Prime Time” show.

Saraki also denounced the ongoing conflict over who should be the National Secretary.
There’s a chance that PDP will have one or two more defections, so we should be ready for that. The worst of the PDP’s defections have not yet occurred. He predicted that one or two governors and possibly a few senators would defect.

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He argued that the crisis’s timing was advantageous, emphasizing that it allows the PDP time to recuperate and rebuild before the election season fully starts.

“This occurring early in the PDP is advantageous to some of us. We’re fortunate that this isn’t occurring because, say, in late 2026, we wouldn’t have even had time to recuperate and reorganize,” he stated.

According to the former governor of Kwara State, the PDP is still powerful at the state and local levels despite the national turmoil.
Saraki warned that the stakes went beyond party survival, but he was hopeful that the party was already setting the stage for the 2027 elections.