ATIKU IS ADC OBSTACLE IN THE 2027 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

Basil Okoh

MaTaZ ArIsInG
Dallas, Texas

If there’s any one who stirs so much dislike and who Nigerians are sure has no chance in the 2027 presidential election, it is Atiku Abubakar. He is intrusive and is now everywhere flaunting a presidential candidacy he does not yet have and grandstanding with the name of ADC as his platform on which to win the 2027 presidential election. Atiku is making it look as if ADC holds the nations jugular to win the 2027 presidential race.

ADC has no track record of electoral success and Atiku’s prancing is not founded on any record of performance as no ideological foundation gives ADC new impetus or popularity. The party has newly been populated by wheelers and dealers who have exploited Nigeria to near death and have no goodwill to win the voters.

Atiku Abubakar is Fulani and shares in the general and particular guilt perpetrated by MACBAN and other terror groups among the Fulani stock in Nigeria for the promotion and sponsorship of terrorism which has culminated in the bombardments by American forces to save the populations. The evil by Fulani on the nation should preclude any Fulani from the ambition to rule Nigeria going forward. Fulani people and Atiku in particular have held Nigeria in thrall for decades and have thoroughly abused every government institution, bringing Nigeria down to its present state of dissonance.

Atiku Abubakar and other members of the ADC are plotting in their gatherings, ascribing greatness to a party that has not contested or won national elections, believing before the fact that ADC will win the 2027 presidential election, based on no other factor than their presence.

Atiku, even as candidate of a former ruling party, PDP, with so many governors in support, could not win the presidency in 2023, how can he hope now to win without the contributions of elected governors, no strong financial base and no national spread of ADC.

ADC is a party without a national icon to rally around. Atiku has been in politics for thirty-six years with nobody to rally around him, so he obviously has no capacity to build a national coalition that can win a presidential election.

NCNC in the fifties and sixties was built around the personality of Nnamdi Azikiwe, so was NPP later in the seventies. Action Group and later UPN was built on the popularity and beliefs in the developmental programs of Obafemi Awolowo. The PDP was an agglomeration of the great men of the day: Solomon Lar, Ekwueme, Abubakar Rimi and so many others and they brought Olusegun Obasanjo as presidential candidate and icing on the cake. Even the APC had to exploit the image of Buhari as a taciturn man with unassailable integrity and it appealed to Northern and Middle Belt voters.

So who’s the national icon on whom ADC can build a national momentum? Atiku Abubakar, an ex Customs Officer does not have the integrity, communicable beliefs or the charisma. Only one man among the lot, Peter Obi, can capture the imagination and love of Nigerians to propel ADC to national prominence. Atiku Abubakar being a bragging Fulani, an ethnicity largely responsible for the dissonant terrorism that has brought Nigeria down on its knees and still determined to own Nigeria or destroy it altogether, can never be able to galvanize Nigerians to a worthy political cause. So ADC and Atiku are working so hard in futility towards the 2027 election without Peter Obi. In fact, ADC may not win a single state without Obi for the simple reason that nobody will back an opposition party without the vibes of youth.

Where in Nigeria does Atiku Abubakar believe his or ADC winning popularity lies? Who in Nigeria today will choose to cast ballot for a Fulani man, Atiku Abubakar, to be the president of Nigeria in 2027? The Agbor people say the goat couldn’t talk while alive, now you’re killing it for sacrifice, making incantations and asking the goat to plead your cause to your ancestors. In what language is the goat going to talk to your ancestors?

The biggest political activism going on today in northern Nigeria is the Hausa rejection of Fulani hegemony particularly Fulani embedment into Hausa society. If Hausa have the means today, they will chase the entire Fulani out of Hausa land. Many Hausa groups have published to thank America and President Donald Trump for the bombardment of Fulani terror groups in the bushes. These groups have been preying on Hausa communities, stealing and selling off their crops, seizing their land, raping their women and kidnapping them for ransom.

So if the Hausa, the largest ethnicity, who are 58% of the population in northern Nigeria won’t vote for Fulani Atiku, who will vote for him in the north and Middle Belt?

Atiku Abubakar’s company INTELS spent over thirty years in Southeastern seaports downsizing and killing the ports and destroying import business in the South-South and Southeast, so who in these regions will vote for Atiku Abubakar?

So Atiku Abubakar and the ADC political party are just grandstanding, pretending to have any traction in the 2027 presidential election. The truth and the facts of the political situation in Nigeria today is that the only action that can project ADC into national reckoning and provide it the levitation to impact the presidential election in 2027 with any hope for success is bringing in Mr. Peter Obi and adopting him as their presidential candidate. The enthusiasm and public acceptance will be instant. Peter Obi has the name recognition across the country and has demonstrated the capacity to win a presidential election as everyone knows he actually won the 2023 presidential election.

The usual Fulani-style pretension to importance and grandeur by Atiku Abubakar as the Lord and owner of Nigeria and ADC will not lead the party anywhere in 2027. Atiku has always projected himself as Lord of everyone and owner of everything. It is what we know him for since the eighties in the Customs. He deploys his Fulani ethnic connections to perfect such claims. That is ended now, Fulani influence won’t give him the presidency of Nigeria, not in 2027 or anytime soon. No reign lasts forever, the Fulani hegemony is dead in Nigerian politics.

ADC will do itself a mighty favour by mounting resistance to Atiku Abubakar’s claims to ownership of the presidential ticket. Atiku is just a big spanner in the works for ADC progress and until the party finds the will to move him aside, the party will not make any progress in the presidential election. Peter Obi will never, on the basis of strongly held principles, spend money to bribe delegates in a presidential Primary election. Atiku will, as his nature demands. He will bribe the delegates and win the Primaries and claim defeat of Obi but will fall in the main election. His plan is to defeat Obi in the Primaries.

After winning the Primaries, Atiku will never spend his own money for the presidential campaigns, resorting to blackmailing his running mate and other party supporters to bleed money for the main presidential campaigns and election. That’s his style and practice in the six presidential elections he has participated in. A Fulani will always be Fulani.

Let everyone know that the Americans will not spend their fortune to destroy Fulani terrorism and end up handing the presidency of Nigeria back to a Fulani.

Atiku is yesterday’s story.

@basilokoh.

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