APC claims Obi-Kwankwaso alliance proposal for 2027 will fail
The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has stated that it is not losing sleep over or feeling threatened by the proposed alliance between Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria People’s Party and Peter Obi of the Labour Party ahead of the 2027 presidential election.
In an interview with newsmen on Monday, the National Publicity Director of the APC, Bala Ibrahim, declared that the proposed Obi-Kwankwaso alliance would fail again, as it did prior to the 2023 presidential election.
According to him, a lack of trust will always be an issue between Obi and Kwankwaso, and neither will be willing to concede their ambition to become President.
It was reported that Kwankwaso, in a recent post, stated he would not mind being Obi’s running mate in 2027 if certain undisclosed conditions were met.
In response to this on Sunday, the National Secretary of the Labour Party, Umar Farouk, described Kwankwaso’s offer as welcome, stating that the merger could work if Kwankwaso is humble enough to collaborate with Obi.
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However, when asked to comment on the proposed Obi-Kwankwaso alliance against President Bola Tinubu in 2027, APC National Publicity Director Ibrahim asserted that the alliance would not see the light of day.
He argued that the factors that led to the collapse of the proposed alliance in 2023 are still very much present.
Ibrahim said, “The underlying and most important factor in this permutation is trust, which will be the bane of their agreement. These experiments have been conducted several times, and the results cannot be expected to change unless the factors responsible for those results change. If you don’t change the factors and carry out the same experiment under the same conditions, expecting a different result, you are only deceiving yourself. This is a scientific procedure.
“Kwankwaso and Peter Obi have attempted to form an alliance in the past on several occasions, but their romance didn’t last beyond the bedroom. This is because they are strange bedfellows who can’t coexist. Both have one ambition—to lead the country at all costs—and neither is willing to surrender the seat to the other due to a superiority complex between them.
“As long as that complex exists, and it is unlikely to diminish, there won’t be any change to warrant the APC having sleepless nights. What they are proposing now is just rhetoric because they see the progress the APC is making and the changes happening in the political scene. They know that by 2027, the victory of the APC is a fait accompli. All they are doing is making noise to survive. It is also the ranting of a party destined for doom. So, there is nothing here to give the APC any concern at all. It is a merger that won’t come to pass.”
However, the National Deputy Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Abdullahi Ibrahim, described the proposed Obi-Kwankwaso alliance as a welcome development.
Ibrahim told journalists that the PDP would support any discussions on an alliance or merger that would liberate Nigerians from the current hardship and the grip of the APC-led government.
He said, “It is a welcome development. We were the ones who initiated the discussion at the instance of the PDP when the major opposition figures met to review the state of the nation. If there is anything we expect from the opposition going forward, it is for them to close ranks and ensure they chart a common cause, whether it is the Peter Obi-led Labour Party, Kwankwaso’s NNPP, or the PDP, which is prepared to lead the direction.
“At least, we are the major opposition and have been in power at the center for 16 years. Currently, we have 13 governors, including the FCT (under Nyesom Wike), making it 14. As of the last count, Wike has still not declared his intention to leave the PDP. So, based on these factors, we remain the major opposition party in the country, and for that reason, we are charting the course.
“As I said earlier, it is commendable regardless of the fact that it is not our political party. It is in the interest of this country for those who have the means to ensure they salvage the people from the despair and despondency that seem to have taken over the land. Of course, Nigerians no longer want this government in power and can’t wait to see the back of the APC because of the insensitivity that characterizes their approach.”
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