The build up to the 2027 election activities seem to have begun openly with the former Vice President Atiku Abubakar leading a pack of some top politicians planning to float a new political party to wrest power from the All progressives Congress, APC in 2027 and beyond.
The reports of the plan said the Atiku new political train has former Zamfara State governor, Abdullaziz Yari and Senator Abdul Ningi and several others.
The steps being taken by the Atiku group may be a response to the internal crises of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP especially regarding the grandstanding of the 5G lead by Former Governor of Rivers State, Nyelson Wike, now Minister of the Federal Capital Territory
The overbearing influence of Nyesom Wike on the PDP heightens the disunity in the party and Atiku seems to have lost his place in the party. therefore looking for a place to place himself and like minds.
The current move is a replica of what happened 2013 which metamorphosed into the All Progressives Congress, APC after the merger of Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) and a faction of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA).
“They have gone far in the arrangement. They believe that the country is in the same situation as it was in 2014 during the Goodluck Ebele Jonathan’s era, hence, their decision to form a mega party to wrestle power from Tinubu,” the source said.
“Ningi’s statement on the BBC Hausa Service was one of the moves of the promoters of the mega party. They want to create problems in the National Assembly and set the lawmakers against each other and the Presidency.”
Another senator alleged that there is a fresh plot to destabilize Tinubu’s government in order to return power to the north in 2027.
“We know their game plan. We are watching them. We have since returned to our political arsenal to thwart any move to create enmity between us and the Executive and destabilise the government,” the senator said under the condition of anonymity.
“Indeed, we don’t attack the government as the opposition is supposed to do. But this is a result of the situation and the government we have. These so-called leaders they forced on us were not voted by us.
“They brought religious issues, ethnic and tribal issues into the process. They used propaganda, saying no Hausa/Fulani would be trusted to lead the opposition because there would be no peace.
“If you look at it from this scenario, the majority of those in opposition are from the Northeast and the Northwest. But we were not allowed to be the leaders of the opposition in the Senate.
“This is one of the reasons we said we would go back and look at what is happening under the umbrella of the Northern Senators’ Forum, which is under my leadership.”
With this development, the. PDP may find it difficult to survive the onslaught or at least remain the leading. opposition party in Nigeria.
Atiku may be planning for the final grounding of the PDP and may wrest power from the ruling APC
