Leading opposition figures are putting aside personal ambitions for the 2027 presidential election to focus on forming a powerful political party aimed at dethroning the All Progressives Congress (APC) from power.
The National Consultative Front (NCFront), led by Prof. Pat Utomi, has dismissed speculation that opposition leaders like Atiku Abubakar (PDP), Peter Obi (Labour Party), and Rabiu Kwankwaso (NNPP) are already jostling for the 2027 presidential candidacy. Instead, the NCFront says that these leaders are prioritising the formation of a united front capable of wresting control from the ruling party.
In a statement on Sunday signed by Malam Hamisu San Turaki, NCFront noted that the “current erroneous view in the media is a panicky and mischievous agenda of hatchet jobbers to divide the opposition and frustrate the merger proposal for leading opposition parties muted by Alhaji Atiku Abubakar before it takes off, knowing fully well that the unity of the opposition in Nigeria will defeat and overthrow the present flip flop governance and wrongheaded policies of the Tinubu led All Progressives Congress (APC) administration.
“For the avoidance of doubt, leading opposition leaders and parties in Nigeria are at the moment not focused on contesting for political offices in 2027 but presently holding consultations on how to streamline and strengthen their political forces to be able to rescue the country from the dangerous slide into misrule and anarchy foisted by the APC led Federal Government as well as its exploitative economic policies which have landed millions of households and citizens in Nigeria into abject poverty and penury, making the renewed hope mantra of the Tinubu government, a mere consolidation of the rudderless policies of despair and hopelessness of the Buhari regime.”
“We wish to inform Nigerians that a merger facilitation group of key opposition leaders led by Prof. Pat Utomi is now set to convene the inaugural meeting of the merger process of leading opposition parties aimed at building a major mega political party of the Nigerian people to rescue Nigeria by checkmating and dislodging the unpopular and self-serving rule of the APC government. The inaugural meeting is scheduled to be held this month,” he added.
