Atiku, Obi, Kwankwaso In Talks For Coalition To Challenge APC In 2027

Three prominent opposition leaders in Nigeria—Atiku Abubakar, Peter Obi, and Rabiu Kwankwaso—are reportedly in talks about forming a potential coalition ahead of the 2027 presidential election.

The trio aims to unseat the incumbent All Progressives Congress (APC) administration led by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

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EKO HOT BLOG reports that this development follows growing concerns about hunger and widespread insecurity in the country, as stated by a spokesperson for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday.

The PDP’s Deputy National Spokesman, Ibrahim Abdullahi, revealed this during an appearance on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily program.

He indicated that the three former presidential candidates—Atiku of the PDP, Peter Obi of the Labour Party, and Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP)—are willing to set aside personal ambitions to form a strong coalition capable of challenging the ruling APC in 2027, with the shared goal of “rescuing Nigerians from hunger.”

Abdullahi further noted that if the previous leadership of the PDP had effectively managed internal disputes and conflicts, key figures such as former Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike, Kwankwaso, and Obi might have remained within the party, potentially leading to a victory over Tinubu in the last election.

He said, “We’ve lost Kwankwaso, we’ve lost Peter Obi, all of these people, imagine if they are in the party, we will have gone to win the elections.

“This APC said they defeated us with one million plus (votes), just one of these names that I mentioned would have covered that gap for us and we would have been in power today and certainly Nigerians would not have been confronted with this despair and despondency in the land.”

When asked if the PDP is trying to get Obi, Kwankwaso, Wike and others back into the party, Abdullahi said, “Sure, discussion is ongoing. You will see Peter Obi discussing with Atiku, you will see Peter Obi meeting with (Nasir) El-Rufai.

Party management is a very difficult thing and we are doing the best in the quagmire that we have found ourselves. Rest assured, there would light at the end of the tunnel. We have learnt our lessons in a bitter way.”

When inquired further about the potential outcomes of Obi and the others rejoining the PDP, Abdullahi stated, “One of them would yield to the other, thereby providing us with a clear direction.

“Our concern as a party and to these people that I have mentioned is to ensure that we salvage Nigerians from this despair and despondency, between maladies of hunger and frightening insecurity in the land. You could see cluelessness and ineptitude on the part of these people managing this country.”

The PDP chieftain said salvaging Nigerians out of the present hardship is more important than the individual ambitions of the trio.

He said, “Atiku is saying if it is better for him to get Nigeria out of this hopelessness, he would do so.

“He (Atiku) must not be in the race. Atiku is saying that it is an entitlement to him as a democrat; the constitution provides for him that he could contest at any time.

“What he is trying to say is that (there) is no ceiling stopping him from contesting. That is his fundamental democratic right but he is not saying that he will force it on the throat of the party or the country.