The Director of News and Politics Editor at Arise Television, Sumner Sambo, has asserted that some people within the African Democratic Congress (ADC) are using the former Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, to play a game against President Bola Tinubu.

Sambo made this statement on Monday during ‘The Morning Show’, a programme on Arise Television.
He stated that the political credentials of President Tinubu, as a master strategist within Nigeria’s politics, will be tested in 2027 and if not careful, he may be confused with the game ADC is playing.
Sambo also expressed doubt about Amaechi securing the presidential ticket of the opposition coalition, adding that the ADC is unclear about who will be its 2027 flagbearer.
He said, “So in my own thinking, I think they’ve started playing a game against Tinubu, a chess game that Tinubu himself may be confused if he’s not careful, because what I see here are people who have devised several tendencies to obfuscate the realities that Tinubu and his team may actually be planning towards at the moment.
“So I think that Rotimi Amaechi is being sent by certain people within the ADC to distract him. If you look at the strategies ongoing right now, you will see that it is not really clear exactly who may likely get the ADC ticket, not because you cannot make the calculations, but because, I think that these ADC leaders have all agreed to bring in place certain techniques that they will use to confuse the APC election planning committee ahead of the 2027, elections.
“So here’s Amaechi, whose highest political capacity has been the Director General of the Buhari/Osinbajo campaign in 2014 and 2019 coming to say that he would defeat Tinubu.
“It’s not going to be easy. It’s not really, really going to be easy, because Tinubu himself has a whole chunk of people who believe in his capacity in the APC, and you will understand that if it comes to the issues of obtaining ticket, Tinubu has a strategy that is very difficult to defeat.”

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