2027: Tinubu will win if ADC fields southern candidate – Okonkwo
A member of the opposition coalition, Kenneth Okonkwo, says President Bola Tinubu will win if the African Democratic Congress (ADC) presents a southern presidential candidate as its flag bearer in the 2027 election.
Okonkwo said that to unseat Tinubu, the ADC coalition should present a northern political heavyweight, saying “My strategy this time around is that I am going to support a northerner in 2027,”
Speaking on Channels TV’s Politics Today on Tuesday, Okonkwo added “It must be a northerner that the whole north is willing to support. If the whole north is willing to support an Atiku, why not?.
“If the whole north is willing to support a Tambuwal, why not? The person must be qualified, and if he has experience in the presidency, it is an added advantage, and when he puts up something from the south, that will push him through,”
He said Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has “become incurably bad and we want to terminate his incumbency”.
“Anybody telling you it’s injustice if the north comes in, if the south comes in, and whoever wins in a primary election will take it for four years. Where is the injustice? It has happened before. Anybody telling you to bring a fresh southerner to compete against Tinubu, a southerner, is trying to tell you to zone the ticket to Tinubu and Tinubu will win outright,” Okonkwo said.
Okonkwo was one of the spokespersons for Obi, the Labour Party’s presidential candidate in the 2023 election, but he parted ways with the former Anambra governor and dumped the Labour Party in July 2024 over the party’s internal squabbles and Obi’s failure to address them.
