2027: We Can Win Presidential Election Without Coalition — ADC Spokesperson

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has declared that it can win the 2027 presidential election without forming a coalition with other opposition parties.

The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi, made the position known on Channels Television’s Politics Today while assessing the ADC’s chances ahead of the 2027 general elections.

Abdullahi explained that although the opposition coalition was initially conceived as a strategy to make it easier to defeat the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), the political landscape had changed significantly following the movement of some key figures to other parties.

“When we started building this coalition, we started on the assumption that if we are able to build a broad-based coalition, it would make our job of beating the APC easier. But that didn’t pan out the way we expected,” he said.

He cited the movement of former Anambra State Governor Peter Obi, one of the prominent figures associated with the coalition, to the National Democratic Congress (NDC), where he is expected to contest with former Kano State Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso as his running mate.

“One of the key players, leaders in the coalition, has gone to the NDC, and that’s His Excellency Peter Obi, and of course Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso as his running mate. We are in the African Democratic Congress,” Abdullahi said.

Despite the development, the ADC spokesman maintained that the party does not require a broad opposition coalition to emerge victorious in the 2027 presidential election.

“What I’m saying is that we don’t need a coalition to win this election. The African Democratic Congress does not need a coalition to win this election,” he said.

He, however, acknowledged that a broader alliance could make the party’s task easier if an effective arrangement could still be achieved.

“If we are able to build the kind of coalition that we started, maybe it’ll make our job easier, but we don’t need that coalition. We don’t necessarily need the coalition to win the election,” he added.

Abdullahi said talks among opposition parties were still ongoing, but noted that discussions had shifted from producing a single presidential candidate to identifying areas of possible cooperation.

According to him, one area where opposition parties could collaborate is election monitoring and the protection of votes during the 2027 elections.

“We are still having conversations among ourselves, opposition political parties, and there are different areas. You’ve heard about the G100, mobilizing everybody, trying to bring everybody together,” he said.

“But the conversation is not about how do we produce a single presidential candidate. The conversation predominantly is about what areas of cooperation is possible.”

He added: “For example, if we are able to develop a common protocol for election monitoring and for policing our votes, that is major.”