Ahead of the 2027 presidential election, the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has again boasted that no politician is capable of defeating President Bola Tinubu.
NATIONAL POST reports that opposition politicians in Nigeria are grouping under the African Democratic Congress, ADC, with the sole aim of stopping Tinubu’s re-election.
It is expected that one of the trio- Atiku Abubakar, Peter Obi and Rotimi Amaechi will fly the ADC flag.
However, the APC said it is unperturbed about whoever steps out to challenge Tinubu or whoever takes over from Prof Mahmood Yakubu as the next chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
The National Secretary of the ruling party, Dr Ajibola Basiru made the remark in an interview with The Sun.
Yakubu is expected to complete his tenure by the end of this year.
Asked if the APC-led government is seeking to recommend a new chairman for the electoral body, Ajibola Basiru said, "how can you be asking a player to recommend a referee? We are players and don’t care about which referee was brought to officiate the match".
“The recommendation is the job of civil society organisations and lawmakers.
"Our own job is to mobilize, galvanized, and sensitise our members for whoever they like.
“In fact, by the time we mobilise, even if the new chairman of INEC is the father of the presidential candidate of another party, Asiwaju will still win the election," he said emphatically.
