Most of the politicians loyal to the late former president of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari are ready to join the coalition and its adopted party, Bolaji Abdullahi, the interim National Chairman of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) has said.
Abdullahi in an interview said that the entire leadership from the Northern part of the country are eager to join the coalition movement to oust the present administration led by President Bola Tinubu.
According to Abdullahi, the death of the former president will only cement an already existing plan by the defunct Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) bloc of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
He said, “Most of the Buhari loyalists are already with us. The majority of them, the entire North is already with our party. We are very confident. The passing of the former President will only cement that for us because that was his wish when he was alive — that his members should join the coalition.
“As you can see, there is a strong representation of CPC and Buhari loyalists in the senior ranks of the coalition — the likes of Babachir Lawal, Abubakar Malami, Isah Pantami, Emeka Nwajuba, Nasir El-Rufai, Rotimi Amaechi, Rauf Aregbesola and the rest of them. Those are Buhari people,” Abdullahi noted.
He also stated that the presence of Buhari’s loyalists in the leadership construct of the coalition is an indication of where the late former president stood ahead of the 2027 polls.
“Why would they remain part of the APC?” Is it because they enjoy the humiliation and the exclusion they have suffered? Or is it because they’ve watched the government demonise the legacy of Buhari while he was alive?” he asked.
He further alleged that the President Tinubu-led government successfully vilified the late former president for Nigeria’s economic woes.
