A chieftain of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Engineer Buba Galadima, has said that the alliance being processed by the opposition parties will chase the All Progressives Congress APC) out of Aso Rock in 2027.

Galadima, who spoke to the Nigerian Tribune in Abuja, said that the opposition has learnt from the mistakes of the 2023 election, adding that the parties would be ready to queue behind the most popular ticket.

He said that the opposition parties are talking and that the leaders are fishing for the best candidate to slug it out with President Bola Tinubu in 2027.

“Tinubu cannot win the 2027 election, even if he has 36 governors supporting him. He wants to kill the opposition, but even if he arms the governors with all the money, the opposition will not die. APC may implode because it is not to Tinubu’s advantage to have every governor on one side,” he said.

When asked whether the leader of NNPP, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, was ready to team up with the presidential candidate of Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 election, Mr Peter Obi, Galadima said that nothing has been firmed up.

“People are saying different things. We have heard of Obi/Kwankwaso, some people are talking of Jonathan/Kwankwaso ticket,” he said, adding that unlike what happened in 2023, opposition parties will be persuaded to rally behind the candidate with the biggest appeal to Nigerians. “The choice of the candidate is going to be paramount in 2027,” he added.

“If the PDP gets hold of the candidate they are looking at, that party will form the next government in 2027.”

He added that the crisis currently bedeviling the former ruling party would peter into oblivion when the time comes.

“I want you to quote me, PDP will win the presidential election in 2027. Tinubu will go,” he said.

He also said that the governor of Kano State, Kabir Yusuf, should hand over the mandate of the Kano people to the NNPP, since he has defected to the APC, as, according to him, the party is the custodian of the mandate given to it in 2023 by the people.

Kano governor must drop our (NNPP) mandate because when Kano people were voting in 2023, they voted for NNPP logo and we sent him on an errand to go and work for the people, something he detests,” he said, adding that the party will take the next available option on his matter very soon.

Galadima claimed that Governor Yusuf spent most of the time in office working for the APC, as he paid billions of naira in severance packages to former aides of his predecessor, Abdullahi Ganduje, while refusing to assist members of the NNPP.

Speaking on 2027, Galadima said that the NNPP would go into alliances with like-minded parties to bring about a country where democracy would work for the people. “It won’t be foolishness on our part if we align with parties that agree with our values. We can team up in an alliance and we can work together,” he stated.

He said that despite his refusal to join the APC, Kwankwaso remains the most sought-after politician in the country today.

The NNPP chieftain said: “If you are observant, there is no one single politician that commands Kwankwaso’s followership individually. Our own support is organic; whether you like Kwankwaso or not, you must agree. There is no one politician who will sit down in Abuja and say I need one million persons, and they would come, without giving them a penny. If we see a party that wants to do all that we plan to do, like training people in skills, educating the children of nobody and making them somebody and throwing away the Tax reforms, if we see people who believe that we should use all the resources of the country to defend the country from banditry and Boko Haram and what have you, he has a friend in us.” (Nigerian Tribune)