The African Democratic Congress (ADC) coalition is not too different from the ideology of President Bola Tinubu in the 2015 movement.
Vice Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 election, Datti Baba-Ahmed, stated this on Arise Television’s Prime Time on Thursday, while assessing the Adc.
According to Baba-Ahmed, the ADC coalition is the same strategy Tinubu used in the build-up to the 2015 presidential election.
Unlike the alliance of political parties that formed the All Progressives Congress (APC), and made President Muhammadu Buhari as the “anointed” presidential candidate, Baba-Ahmed said the current coalition does not have such plan.
“There are structural misgivings in the coalition as it is today. Buhari was the distant anointed from ab initio (referring to APC in 2015). The convener (Tinubu) supported him. He understands that when Buhari leaves, he will become president.
“This opposition does not have a distant anointed (candidate). There will be a very close gap and tight struggle for it (presidential candidate). Possibly, not so clean primary and struggle for it. The question is what will be the aftermath,” he said.
The coalition is being spearheaded by Vice President Atiku Abubakar; presidential candidate of the LP in 2023, Peter Obi; a former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, and other opposition leaders. They formally unveiled the ADC as its new platform on Wednesday.
