A foundation member of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Osita Okechukwu, has dismissed claims by the African Democratic Congress, ADC.
The party had alleged that a national consensus would unseat President Bola Tinubu in 2027.
Speaking on Sunday, during a briefing with members of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, at Eke in Enugu State, Okechukwu maintained that Tinubu remains politically formidable.
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He insisted that the CPC bloc would deliver a significant portion of the late Muhammadu Buhari’s 12 million votes to the president in the next election.
He said: “No consensus can unseat President Tinubu in 2027. The CPC has resolved to support him and we are obliged to give him a huge chunk of Buhari’s 12 million vote-bank.”
Responding to ADC’s claim of a growing national consensus against Tinubu, Okechukwu argued that the real consensus is the presidential zoning arrangement between the North and South.
According to him, “The truism is that the majority of Nigerians, both partisan and non-partisan, adopted the national consensus that the presidency should rotate from the South to the North and vice versa.
“This convention, instituted in 1999, is a golden milestone of the 4th Republic for equity, justice and fairness.”
He further described politicians who defected from the PDP to ADC as “Internal Displaced Politicians, IDPs” desperate for power.
Okechukwu said: “Please don’t mind the IDPs who, after destabilising our sister party, the PDP, became desperate power grabbers and today are oiling ethno-religious levers while blaming Tinubu for their unforced error.”
He concluded that ADC’s hopes in the North were misplaced, stressing that “the northern electorate are one of the most sophisticated in Nigeria.
“To bank on them as if they are quartered in a dormitory is a mirage.”
