How Atiku, Peter Obi, El-Rufai Gained Upper Hand Over Tinubu — Dele Momodu

According to African Democratic Congress (ADC) chieftain Dele Momodu, opposition leaders have effectively outmanoeuvred President Bola Tinubu’s administration with their political strategies ahead of the general elections in 2027. These leaders include former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, former Kaduna Governor Nasir El-Rufai, and former Anambra Governor Peter Obi.
Speaking on Friday’s Sunrise program on Channels Television, Momodu asserted that the opposition coalition’s strength had shocked the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), which was attempting to undermine parties by inciting internal strife.

He said that the APC’s decision to make Tinubu a consensus candidate in 2027 was a response to their concerns about a strong opposition.

He claimed that in order to destabilize parties like the Labour Party, PDP, and NNPP, government officials purposefully formed factions within them.

Momodu revealed that the organizers of the ADC foresaw these strategies and acted proactively to protect the party’s organization against outside intervention.

The media tycoon also disclosed that the opposition purposefully tricked the ruling party into believing they were siding with the Social Democratic Party (SDP) or another new platform before revealing the ADC as their focal point.

He commended ADC leaders for their tenacity, calling them “several steps ahead” of efforts to undermine the alliance.

“The ruling party is clearly nervous,” he remarked. In 2027 in particular, the ruling party does not want any serious challenge. They want a single candidate, but they don’t care too much about the governors and the others.

“The president and commander in chief are the one individual that all political parties should support, if at all feasible. When the news emerged yesterday that these men were headed to court, I wasn’t shocked.

“We are all aware of what is happening. If someone feels wronged, there is nothing wrong with them going to court. Fortunately, they should have been aware that the ADC conveners put in a great deal of effort behind the scenes to get us to where we are today.

“They were slow. They were aware that the government agents would try to impose their will, as they have done in the past with Labour, the PDP, and the NNPP, causing divisions everywhere.

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However, you must honor the leaders and gentlemen who worked on ADC. They attempted to tighten every screw because they are highly skilled individuals and well-known politicians. It came as a surprise.

“You could see they were doing abracadabra over time, and everybody assumed they were going to SDP. When Nasir El-Rufai announced his intention to join SDP, everyone said, ‘Oh, it’s obvious that the opposition or the coalition will join SDP. Then we hear about ADA about a week or so before ADC. “Oh yes, we are going to use cutlass and everything,” somebody were saying. Then ADC appeared out of nowhere.

Therefore, I wasn’t surprised. I wasn’t surprised. In actuality, the genuine stakeholders, who ought to be aware of everything meant to irritate ADC, are already far ahead of that annoyance.

It is unfortunate. It is regrettable that after everything we endured during the military era, a civilian government would not want democracy to thrive. There have been many sacrifices made for this democracy, and we will never know when a few individuals may want to take it over for their own gain, which is exactly what is taking place right now.

“As you can see, PDP has been unable to advance. Furthermore, I do not even claim that the PDP is currently in a state of immobility. It’s even reversing direction. Anytime they believe they have figured out a solution, one man will take the stage, sabotage it, and publicly brag that they can utilize INEC and the courts.

Now that INEC has failed and the attempt to utilize it has failed, the courts will be the next to collapse. I also hope that the judiciary will have the courage to do so. There is nothing to fear. In order to know that their children, grandkids, and other unborn people would live in Nigeria, those in the judiciary should live for their legacy. Therefore, if you destroy Nigeria, consider all of the people who have destroyed Nigeria in the past. Where are they now?

Therefore, I will only make one request to the judiciary: resist their pressure and temptation.