2027 election: 3 major reasons why Atiku may defeat APC, Tinubu

• Some of the statesmanlike hopefuls successful the National Opposition Coalition Group, led by erstwhile Vice President Atiku Abubakar and ex-Kaduna authorities governor, Nasir El-Rufai, are inactive pondering the options earlier them
• In April, Atiku declared that lone a conjugation tin decision President Bola Ahmed Tinubu successful the 2027 election
• In this report, Legit.ng highlights 3 reasons that tin lend to Atiku defeating Tinubu if helium secures the coalition's ticket

Legit.ng writer Ridwan Adeola Yusuf has implicit 9 years of acquisition covering elections, politics, and governance successful Nigeria.

FCT, Abuja - As the authorities of 2027 vigor up, politicians are scheming to instrumentality oregon clasp power.

In airy of this, the large question connected the lips of galore Nigerians is, tin erstwhile Vice President (VP), Atiku Abubakar, decision President Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to beryllium elected Nigeria's leader?

Atiku is believed to beryllium the person of a conjugation seeking to unseat President Bola Tinubu successful the 2027 election.
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Atiku, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) statesmanlike campaigner successful 2019 and 2023, has been rooting for a conjugation to situation the APC successful 2027.

The determination involves the erstwhile Labour Party (LP) statesmanlike campaigner Peter Obi, the erstwhile politician of Kaduna state, Nasir El-Rufai, the erstwhile caput to the authorities of the federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal, and a one-time committee president of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Akin Ricketts.

Atiku, erstwhile Nigerian No.2 citizen, has contacted cardinal governmental figures crossed enactment lines.

In this report, Legit.ng looks astatine 3 cardinal factors that tin assistance Atiku decision Tinubu successful the lawsuit helium emerges arsenic the coalition's standardbearer.

1) Broad-based support

Atiku, from Adamawa state, enjoys enactment from a divers base. He has allies from the nooks and crannies of Nigeria.

Some governmental stakeholders powerfully enactment Atiku due to the fact that of his purported committedness to matters of nationalist interest.

2) Atiku touted arsenic 'the unifier'

Atiku is christened 'The Uniifier' by his supporters, who accidental the tag was calved retired of the necessity of the times.

The ex-VP expressed solidarity with those alleging marginalisation and promised astatine respective fora to unify Nigeria if elected president.

3) Public frustration

Many Nigerians are of the sentiment that the system is unfriendly successful the West African state since President Bola Ahmed Tinubu took bureau successful May 2023; hence, they would not caput a alteration successful leadership.

In the past year, tottering ostentation has sent nutrient prices up, making it hard for galore people to spend 3 meals per day.

Already, section nutrient accumulation had dipped, mostly due to the fact that farmers successful the country’s food-producing bluish regions look attacks from equipped groups similar Boko Haram and bandits.

Atiku Abubakar says helium volition proceed to tally for the presidency of Nigeria if helium is healthy.
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Veteran Atiku whitethorn vie again

Atiku has earned the moniker of Nigeria’s seasoned statesmanlike predetermination contestant.

The 78-year-old has contested unsuccessfully for the president of Nigeria astatine six antithetic predetermination cycles: 1993, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2019, and 2023.

What's Atiku's accidental successful 2027 election?

Atiku’s closest accidental to go president was successful 2019 and 2023. He came successful a adjacent 2nd successful 2023 with a full of 6,984,520 votes down the incumbent President Tinubu, who scored 8,794,726 votes, the lowest successful modern past that immoderate president ever polled. But determination are forces successful the absorption conjugation who consciousness that Atiku has had his clip and that others person served him agelong enough. His ambition to beryllium president is mostly believed to beryllium liable for the existent situation successful the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Many of the governors and different stakeholders bash not privation to enactment hard to enactment the enactment successful shape, lone for Atiku to travel and ‘grab’ the summons again.

Besides, a bulk of them inactive judge successful the zoning rule and truthful clasp the presumption that powerfulness indispensable stay successful the south, a determination that is evidently antagonistic to Atiku’s interest.

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2027 coalition: Atiku's adjutant denies ADA

Earlier, Legit.ng reported that AbdulRasheed Shehu, peculiar adjunct connected media to Atiku Abubakar, said the erstwhile vice-president and his radical person not adopted the All Democratic Alliance (ADA) arsenic their coalition platform.

Shehu said, contrary to wide media reports, the radical inactive had issues to benignant retired with the coalition.

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Source: Legit.ng