Politics
2027: APC can trounce Atiku, ADC needs mercurial candidate – Baba-Ahmed
Peter Obi’s running mate in the 2023 presidential election, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, has called on the coalition-backed African Democratic Congress (ADC) to put forward a presidential candidate that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) will not be able to defeat in the 2027 election.
He gave this admonition amid growing speculation that the ADC may offer former Vice President Alhaji Atiku Abubakar — who played a major role in the formation of the coalition — its 2027 presidential candidate, he noted that President Bola Tinubu and the ruling party are familiar with Atiku’s political games.
According to him, the APC knows how to work against Atiku, having defeated him in two presidential elections.
The former lawmaker said this in an interview with Trust TV.
“If you bring out Atiku, they know how to work against Atiku, and he is welcome to win, if he wins we will support him. You need that candidate they can’t understand, they don’t know where to catch, that is how to win an election,” Baba-Ahmed stated.
The 55-year-old Kaduna politician advised the ADC to realise how powerful Tinubu is, stressing that he (Tinubu) patiently schemed for 16 years and eventually achieved his presidential ambition in 2023.
He added that he has not seen any politician in the coalition who can plan for 16 years or shelve their political ambitions for another person, as Tinubu did for former President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015.
He said: “Any coalition that is coming together has to realise how powerful this individual called Tinubu is.
Somebody who schemed for 16 years to take it one day. He has done what nobody has done, and I don’t see among our own coalition now somebody who is able to plan or scheme for 16 years.
