The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Professor Nentawe Yilwatda has claimed that some opposition parties, together with the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, are backing President Bola Tinubu’s re-election bid forward of the 2027 normal elections.
Yilwatda made the declare on Tuesday in Abuja after assembly with Tinubu alongside the Director-General of the APC Presidential Campaign Council, Abdul’aziz Yari.
The assembly was to transient the president on preparations for the APC’s presidential marketing campaign forward of the 2027 elections.
The APC chairman listed the PDP, the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA and the Accord Party as opposition parties supporting Tinubu’s second-term ambition.
“If you look at what the party is doing now, the opposition parties are with us. All political parties that have defeated us in any election are with us; PDP is with us, APGA is with us, Accord is with us.
“These are the only political parties that have defeated us, except Allied People’s Movement, and they are all with us in this campaign,” Yilwatda mentioned.
However, the PDP has rejected claims of its help for Tinubu’s re-election, insisting that the occasion stays against the APC-led Federal Government and its insurance policies.
In an announcement, the opposition occasion dismissed studies attributed to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, suggesting that PDP candidates ought to dismantle their political buildings and help Tinubu’s re-election.
The PDP described the reported name as an try and misrepresent the place of its real members, accusing some people throughout the opposition of working in favour of the ruling occasion.
“The true and principled members of the Peoples Democratic Party are not part of the shameless, self-serving support for the APC-led Federal Government and its destructive policies,” the assertion mentioned.
The occasion argued that the first accountability of the opposition was to supply Nigerians an alternative choice to the ruling authorities, quite than help its continued keep in energy.
It added that any proposed alliance amongst opposition parties ought to be directed in direction of strengthening the opposition quite than collaborating with the APC.
“If at all opposition parties are to have an alliance, it will be amongst themselves, not with the governing party,” the PDP said.
The occasion additionally criticised the proposed “rainbow coalition,” describing it as a risk to electoral democracy and warning that such an association may undermine political competitors within the nation.
The PDP urged its members to stay dedicated to the occasion whereas awaiting the end result of its case on the Court of Appeal, which it mentioned had already been heard.
