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The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has dismissed ongoing talks of a potential opposition merger ahead of the 2027 general elections, describing the initiative as a fruitless political experiment bound to collapse.

Ganduje made the remarks on Friday while speaking with journalists in Kaduna after leading members of the APC National Working Committee (NWC) on a Sallah homage to former President Muhammadu Buhari at his private residence.

Reacting to speculations about an emerging coalition among opposition heavyweights—particularly former Vice President Atiku Abubakar—the APC chairman waved off any suggestion that such a movement posed a threat to the ruling party.

“We are not worried at all. This is just history repeating itself. They have done it before, and it didn’t work. What we’re seeing now are just incompatible fragments trying to unite. It’s a political game, and though we won’t disclose our strategies, we’re more than ready for the task ahead,” Ganduje said.

The APC leader reaffirmed the party’s firm grip on national politics, highlighting its control of 21 states and referring to the APC as “still the strongest party in West Africa.”

According to Ganduje, the ruling party is not content with maintaining the status quo but is actively working to expand its influence across more states.

“We are targeting more states—either by convincing their leaders to join us or by defeating them at the polls. We are confident, but not complacent. The work continues,” he added.

His comments came just days after a high-profile visit to former President Buhari by opposition leader Atiku Abubakar, who was accompanied by prominent figures including former governors Nasir el-Rufai (Kaduna), Aminu Tambuwal (Sokoto), Gabriel Suswam (Benue), Jibrilla Bindow (Adamawa), and Achike Udenwa (Imo).

While the visit sparked fresh speculation about a grand opposition alliance, Atiku clarified that the meeting was purely a post-Sallah courtesy call.

“There is a plan for the major political parties to come together and form a strong opposition, but it is not part of our visit,” Atiku told reporters after the meeting.

As Nigeria’s political landscape begins to warm up ahead of 2027, analysts say all eyes will be on how both the ruling party and the opposition recalibrate their strategies in the coming months.

VnAhunnaPl:
Ganduje has a point.

Immatex:
Someone that should be serving a prison term is as free as air, issuing statements and protected by law enforcement agencies!

Skepticus:
PDP is supposed to put this misfiring and directionless APC on their toes but it has turned out to be the worst opposition party in Africa.

Bunch of clowns!

anonimi:
“The worst illiterate is the political illiterate, he doesn’t hear, doesn’t speak, nor participates in the political events.

He doesn’t know the cost of life, the price of the bean, of the fish, of the flour, of the rent, of the shoes and of the medicine, all depends on political decisions. The political illiterate is so stupid that he is proud and swells his chest saying that he hates politics.

The slowpoke doesn’t know that, from his political ignorance is born the prostitute, the abandoned child, and the worst thieves of all, the bad politician, corrupted and flunky of the national and multinational companies.”

― Bertolt Brecht

Immatex:
Someone that should be serving a prison term just like peter obi is as free as air, issuing statements and protected by law enforcement agencies!

ChiefOloye:
At this point, I'm tire. However, Tinubu should allowed to complete his 8 years. After Jonathan, the next person to be deprived of a 2 terms of office shouldn't be another Southerner, especially when a Buhari was gifted 8 unproductive years.

Emergingnation:
Flashback: How Bola Tinubu spoke highly of Buhari in 2015, named PDP ‘Poverty Development Party

National leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu had during the presidential campaign in 2015, referred to President Muhammadu Buhari as the only solution for the security and economic challenges facing Nigeria.

During a mega presidential rally, the former governor of Lagos State recalled how some powerful nations in the world returned to army generals when they were challenged, saying “Major General Buhari would revive Nigeria’s economy”.

He named the current opposition People’s Democratic Party, PDP as the “Poverty Development Party saying they had nothing to offer.

His words at the time were; “Every nation has a period of their own challenges, when America was challenged, they turned to one great man, their ex-military general, General Eisenhower. When the French were challenged, they turned to their general, Charles de Gaulle.

“When Britain was challenged, they turned to their general. Today, Nigeria is economically and physically challenged so we turn to General Muhammadu Buhari. He is the right man for the job. If you talk about military experience, he has it abundantly, he has courage, simplicity, he has it abundantly.

“If you talk about great determination, a combination of vision and ability to perform, honesty and integrity, he has it abundantly.

“I laugh when the incapable government, ‘Poverty Development Party’ PDP were talking. They have nothing again to say, they now want to question the qualifications of General Buhari and look for his certificate”.

Following the manifestos in 2015 which projected the APC presidential candidate as a ‘saviour’, Buhari defeated the then incumbent president, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan with Nigerians expecting a total change in security and economy.

https://dailypost.ng/2021/09/01/flashback-how-bola-tinubu-spoke-highly-of-buhari-in-2015-named-pdp-poverty-development-party/

anonimi:
Well done for being a primitive tribal champion who loves his suffering, as long as his fellow southerner is president.

Why are you forgetting that ebilokan deprived Jonathan of two terms in office by packaging his own 2011 expired soldier into APC change messiah four years later, just because he was eyeing the 2023 election to continue the shege at extra level?

Moreover, by 2027, southerners would have been president for 17 out of the 28 years of democracy since 1999.

anonimi:
Well done for being a primitive tribal champion who loves his suffering, as long as his fellow southerner is president.

Why are you forgetting that ebilokan deprived Jonathan of two terms in office by packaging his own 2011 expired soldier into APC change messiah four years later, just because he was eyeing the 2023 election to continue the shege at extra level?

Moreover, by 2027, southerners would have been president for 17 out of the 28 years of democracy since 1999.

Salewa97:
APC don dey use psychology on these oppositions.

Ganduje the chairman of APC don already tell them say they go lose so they go dey lose morale gradually.

I like this strategy.

RealGandalf:
Source: https://thebureau.com.ng/opposition-merger-a-futile-alliance-says-apc-chairman-ganduje/

ImpartialGuy:
If Peter Obi can work with Atiku Abubakar, they will bury APC. Since 1999, Tinubu has won the least electoral votes than any of his predecessors. It shows how unpopular he is. He even lost his backyard.

ChiefOloye:
At this point, I'm tire. However, Tinubu should be allowed to complete his 8 years. After Jonathan, the next person to be deprived of a 2 terms of office shouldn't be another Southerner, especially when a Buhari was gifted 8 unproductive years. What's good for North, should also be good for the South.
As for El Rufai, he's mad! Did any Southern Politician revolt and leave APC, to lead a gang-up against Buhari?

ChiefOloye:
What is this one saying? Why did you start your counting from 1999 and not 1960, did Nigeria come into existence in1999? Talking about hunger and meltdown, please educate me; at what stage of our existence as a Country (I wanted to write Nation, but we are not a Nation) did we experience prosperity and affluent? It has be crying of poverty and suffering since independence and it won't change, regardless who is you President. I'll only admonish you to step out, grab whatever you can, fight and fend for yourself and family, because nobody really cares for you.

searchlight:
So you believe in equity but a South Eastern is not fit to rule. Oga, Atiku is the next president of Nigeria. Bookmark this comment

ChiefOloye:
At this point, I'm tire. However, Tinubu should be allowed to complete his 8 years. After Jonathan, the next person to be deprived of a 2 terms of office shouldn't be another Southerner, especially when a Buhari was gifted 8 unproductive years. What's good for North, should also be good for the South.
As for El Rufai, he's mad! Did any Southern Politician revolt and leave APC, to lead a gang-up against Buhari?