The Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus
Keyamo, has hinted on why it is not possible to unseat President Bola Tinubu
through coalition in the 2027 general elections, describing such a move as
impossible.
Keyamo, who stated this on Channels Television’s Politics
Today on Monday, said the much-touted coalition plans by some political elite
amounted to a storm in a teacup and would not withstand the strength of the
structure of the All Progressives Congress, APC.
“There is no tsunami coming. I think it’s a storm in a
teacup. I respect these people, but if you look at the political history of
Nigeria… I have campaigned for two presidents, so I have knowledge of the
demography. It is impossible for you to do a coalition now to unseat the present
President (Tinubu),” he said.
The minister was reacting to comments made by a Labour Party
chieftain, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, and other northern elite, including a former
Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, and a former vice president, Atiku
Abubakar, who have hinted at forming an opposition coalition.
Baba-Ahmed had accused the Tinubu administration of
presiding over widespread rot, urging Nigerians to look elsewhere in 2027.
In the same vein, some people within the opposition Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP, were rumoured to be considering a merger.
However, several PDP governors have publicly distanced
themselves from the idea.
DAILY POST recalls that a former Ekiti State Governor, Ayo
Fayose, described the coalition talks as a dead horse and a waste of time.
Keyamo, when asked if Tinubu’s APC could withstand the
alleged political “tsunami” being mobilised against it, insisted that coalition
talks were either misguided or too late in the day.
“There are two different things they are talking about — a
merger or an alliance. They should be very clear. If it’s a merger, forget it,
because it’s too late to start a merger now,” he explained.
He recalled how, after the 2011 elections, President Tinubu
had swiftly initiated merger talks with then-General Muhammadu Buhari, a
process he said took years of negotiations, back-and-forth meetings, and
conventions.
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