Ayo Fayose, a former Ekiti State Governor, has dismissed the widely discussed coalition of opposition parties seeking to unseat President Bola Tinubu and the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2027, labeling the effort as a futile exercise.
Fayose, who stated this on ‘Politics Today’, a programme on Channels Television on Friday, added that no prominent Nigerian is part of the coalition talk.
“Their coalition is a dead horse ab initio. Tell me one positive person, well respected Nigerians that has given his voice in support of this coalition,” Fayose said.
Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, who was PDP’s presidential candidate in 2023 and former Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, who recently decamped to the Social Democratic Party, SDP, from the APC are reportedly spearheading the coalition.
However, Fayose, a member of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, believes that the coalition will fail because the governors of the PDP are not with Atiku, as they are fighting for their own political survival.
“If anybody is fighting out of issues with his party, he can resolve that with his party. The (PDP) governors’ actions and statement in Ibadan is to tell Atiku that we are not with you, we are going nowhere, we have our own identity.
“So, that coalition is just in the imagination of people trying to bring it to fruition. So, let me say to you, it’s a waste of time,” he added.
According to the former Ekiti governor, most of the opposition governors prefer Tinubu for their survival to Atiku.
He said something is fundamentally wrong with the PDP that needs to be fixed before the party could talk about strongly challenging the ruling party.
