𝐀𝐭𝐢𝐤𝐮, 𝐄𝐥-𝐑𝐮𝐟𝐚𝐢 𝐜𝐨𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐬 𝐈𝐍𝐄𝐂 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐲

The National Opposition Coalition Group, led by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and ex-Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has formally applied to the Independent National Electoral Commission for the registration of a new political party—the All Democratic Alliance.

The formation of ADA, backed by some other key political heavyweights, including former Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi and Umar Ardo, convener of the League of Northern Democrats and former aide to President Olusegun Obasanjo, seeks to capitalise on mounting public dissatisfaction and political realignments to stop President Bola Tinubu at the next poll.

𝐓𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐛𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧’𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐫𝐞-𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟕 – 𝐄𝐥-𝐑𝐮𝐟𝐚𝐢

El-Rufai said, “Anybody that thinks it is possible for President Bola Tinubu to get re-elected is living in another country, not Nigeria. It is impossible for Bola Tinubu to get re-elected. I don’t see a pathway for him." “It is greedy and hungry politicians and those that are looking for money, contract, appointment, office that are defecting,” he added.

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Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, ex-Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, and ex-governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State have adopted the African Democratic Congress, ADC, as the official platform of the opposition coalition.

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Ex-Governor Nasir El-Rufai defected to the Social Democratic Party (SDP), and his son, Bashir El-Rufai, has been posting political tweets aimed at the supporters of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

In one of his tweets, Bashir praised Peter Obi, the former Labour Party’s presidential candidate in the 2023 election, saying his views about him had changed.

Reacting to his father’s defection via his X account, the ex-governor’s son said APC members p0isoned his mind against Obi.

He tweeted, “Peter Obi is surprisingly not a bad person after all. My views on him have changed recently. My mind was p0isoned by my former party members. Sai Obi!”

In another tweet, Bashir called out to young Nigerians to join his father’s new party, saying, there would be “an online platform for all prospective SDP members to register and join by the end of this week.”

However, Daniel Bwala, President Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Policy Communication, has described El-Rufai’s defection to the Social Democratic Party (SDP) as an inordinate ambition destined to fail.

Bwala said that El-Rufai would be reminded that associating with “sore l0sers to unseat” President Bola Tinubu is neither an ideology nor progressivism.

Reacting to the development in a tweet, Bwala wrote: He tweeted, “Senior, @elrufai. I read the news today that you resigned from APC to join SDP. Well, I have nothing against you because you exercised your constitutional right.

However, the MOTIVE is what we would interrogate in the coming days and remind Nigerians that you are not a phenomenon that emerges like a clap of thunder out of a blue sky.

We would intellectually remind you that associating with sore losers to unseat the incumbent is not an IDEOLOGY, neither is it PROGRESSIVISM; It is simply an inordinate AMBITION that is destined to fail.”

“Peter Obi is surprisingly not a bad person after all. My views on him have changed recently. My mind was poisoned by my former party members.”

-Bashir El-Rufai

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