Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has reaffirmed the coalition’s resolve to defeat President Bola Tinubu in the 2027 election by adopting a powerful platform.
Atiku, a founding member of the Peoples Democratic Party, made the statement Wednesday in Abuja while meeting with a group of National Opinion Leaders who were paying him a courtesy visit.
In his drive for excellent administration, the former vice president compared the coalition to a swift train “with multiple stops to bring on board Nigerians of all shades” on Wednesday, posting on his verified X profile.
This comes after governors on the PDP governors forum insisted that the party is the desirable bride to be courted and not one to seek out potential merging partners, furrther rejecting Atiku’s proposed coalition.
“A number of us, leaders from the APC, PDP, Labour, and others, have come together to say we are going to take a new path—a new pathway to a new Nigeria,” Atiku revealed, describing the action against Tinubu as “Sabo Tafiya (New Path).”
He asserts that the coalition’s purpose goes beyond winning elections to provide good administration to Nigerians from all walks of life.
He said, “Whatever vehicle that will give us good governance in the future of our children and grandchildren, that is the vehicle we are going to ride on,”
He further urged Nigerians saying, “Don’t be disrupted by people giving you pennies or kobos here and there, and then abandon your future and your children’s future,” adding that Nigerians should avoid political cash temptation.
Dele Momodu, Nasir El-Rufai, the former governor of Kaduna State, and other prominent figures have joined Atiku in reminding President Tinubu that his tenure at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa would expire in 2027.
