Just In: Tinubu Gets Another Strong Opponent Aside From Obi, Atiku
President Bola Tinubu's chances in the 2027 presidential election have been confronted with another major threat as the National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) cleared Donald Duke, the former governor of Cross River, as its candidate in the forthcoming general elections.
The former governor's clearance by the PRP came after the conclusion of the review of the recently concluded primaries of the PRP's Primaries Appeal Committee and the subsequent approval of the report of the committee by the NWC.
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Muhammed Ishaq, the national publicity secretary of the party, announced the ratification in a statement in Abuja on Saturday, June 6. He added that the party's NWC also ratified the PRP's governorship, senate, House of Representatives and state Houses of Assembly primary election outcomes.
According to Ishaq, all the PRP candidates have been cleared to run in the 2027 general elections. However, he disclosed that the only exception was the election of the Tarauni Federal Constituency in Kano, where the primary election was yet to be nullified.
The PRP is one of the opposition parties that should be watched out for in the 2027 general election. Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi and two senators from the state, Senator Shehu Buba Umar and Senator Sama’ila Dahuwa, recently dumped Tinubu's All Progressives Congress (APC) for the PRP.
The PRP was one of the oldest political parties in Nigeria, and its roots can be traced to the political movement led by the late Mallam Aminu Kano. The party had recently sought to rebuild its presence in some parts of the north.
Other strong opposition to President Tinubu in the 2027 general election includes the former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar, the candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC). Atiku had been at the forefront of stopping President Tinubu's second-term ambition since the outcome of the 2023 presidential election.
He had urged opposition leaders to come under one platform, leading to the coalition movement. However, the move failed after the likes of Peter Obi and Rabiu Kwankwaso dumped the movement to actualise their presidential ambition in the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC).
Obi has emerged as the presidential candidate of the NDC, while Kwankwaso is his running mate. During the 2027 presidential election, Obi contested against Tinubu on the Labour Party platform, while Kwankwaso ran under the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP). They defected to the ADC and later to the NDC for the 2027 elections.
Source: Legit.ng
