2027 presidency: What Cardinal Onaiyekan told Atiku, Peter Obi, others about uniting against Tinubu – Lukman

Salihu Lukman, a nationalist affairs expert and absorption enactment chieftain, has revealed what His Eminence Cardinal John Onaiyekan told absorption statesmanlike candidates, including Atiku Abubakar of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Peter Obi of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, astir the request to unite to unseat President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

In a connection connected Friday, Lukman said Cardinal Onaiyekan urged absorption parties to unite against Tinubu pursuing their meeting.

Lukman, a starring unit down G100, an absorption conjugation group, said the Cardinal was emphatic astir what absorption leaders indispensable bash to forestall Tinubu's re-election successful 2027.

According to him, the conjugation radical told Onaiyekan that they were moving to guarantee absorption parties fielded a azygous campaigner against Tinubu.

"His Eminence expressed enactment for the efforts of absorption parties and their candidates to unite up of the 2027 elections to physique a robust opposition, which is captious to the sustenance of Nigeria's antiauthoritarian traditions.

"He expressed his joyousness astatine the awesome that Nigerians volition person existent and credible choices to alteration citizens to determine their aboriginal and leaders adjacent year.

"His Eminence emphasised the relation of competent, honorable and sympathetic leaders successful resolving the aggregate problems which harvester to marque decent lives for our citizens hard oregon intolerable to sustain," ...