A former vice presidential candidate of the Labour Party in 2023, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, has dismissed the possibility of a unified opposition candidate for the 2027 presidential election, describing the idea as impossible.
Baba-Ahmed made the remarks on Tuesday while speaking as a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today.
He was reacting to the Ibadan Declaration by an opposition coalition, which agreed to field a single candidate to challenge President Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
According to him, the Ibadan meeting was not attended by all opposition parties, but only the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the African Democratic Congress (ADC).
Baba-Ahmed, who was the vice presidential candidate alongside Peter Obi under the Labour Party in 2023, described the idea of a single opposition candidate in 2027 as “a lie.”
“I think it is a lie (unified opposition candidate). There is no way they will agree; it is not possible. It is only two parties, PDP and ADC. Now the faction of PDP who went there are the runners-up to Wike,” Baba-Ahmed said.
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