The Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) Governors have distanced themselves from a coalition with opposition political parties ahead of 2027 general elections.
The Governors, under the canopy of Governors’ Forum with Bauchi State governor, Bala Mohammed, as its leader, stressed that the party would not join any alliance with any political party.
Rising from a meeting in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital today, April 14, the Forum backed the Deputy National Secretary, Setonji Koshoedo, as Acting National Secretary.
The party’s former presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar had announced the birth of an opposition alliance, which is believed to include former Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi and ex-Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, among other politicians.
Atiku had said that the coalition is aimed at removing President Bola Tinubu in 2027.
The announcement of the coalition came after El-Rufai defected from the All Progressives Congress to the Social Democratic Party, SDP.
El-Rufai had accused the APC of lack of internal democracy since Tinubu assumed power.
However, former presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party, Adewale Adebayo, had said Atiku and Obi were in talks to join the SDP.
He said that if Atiku, Obi and other prominent politicians willing to join SDP can stick to the party’s culture, they would defeat and retire Tinubu and the APC.
This came as a chieftain of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Buba Galadima said that El-Rufai was Atiku’s placeholder in the SDP should the PDP deny him its presidential ticket.
