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There must be a primary election in the ADC. I don't agree with those who say there should be a consensus candidate. A 49-year-old has been elected in Benin Republic. I'm the youngest candidate among all those running now, I'm 60.

- Rotimi Amaechi

There must be a primary election in the ADC. I don't agree with those who say there should be a consensus candidate. A 49-year-old has been elected in Benin Republic. I'm the youngest candidate among all those running now, I'm 60.

- Rotimi Amaechi pic.twitter.com/z02VGfvdRt

— Imran Muhammad (@Imranmuhdz) April 17, 2026

Atiku and Amechi will Outspend the Fraud

Rotimi Ameachi overates himself.
I listened to the interview on channels

He was asked how can he win primary against PObi with 6.1M and Atiku 6M vote.
He said, he led Buhari's team and gave 15M votes as if na him get the votes.
He can't even win in River state.
He even gaslighted the ADC , he said despite the 6.M votes of PObi in last election, why is ADC membership struggling with to reach 3M.

Na Rotimi go use his mouth scatter this coalition at last

One man will soon run away from the ADC

Overated as how? for asking for primary election within the party?

AWONEYAN:
Rotimi Ameachi overates himself.
I listened to the interview on channels

Definitely there will be.

But the reality is, Atiku or Peter Obi will win the ADC ticket.


But I would have preferred Atiku/Obi to ensure Tinubu's rigging plans and mercenaries have no chance.


But if Obi wins the ticket, then it will be Obi/Kwankwaso, another landslide victory but they must prepare to counter Tinubu's rigging in the North, Southeast and Southsouth to stand a chance

We support it hundred percent but no vote-buying. Anyone buying votes is supporting Tinubu.

Can you win the primaries?

If Atiku wins the primaries we know who he will eventually pick as VP. The problem is that Obi will be having double mind to run as VP or not.

If someone like Amechi have the ticket, then ADC will have no chance at all . Someone that have no strong hold or base.

The only road to Aso rock for ADC is to make Atiku the candidate. This is technically the turn of the south as it were and no northerner would want to vote another southerner who would do another 8 years in power! So if at all they would prefer a Jonathan or just go with the incumbent so they get power back in 2031. An obi presidency means they would have to wait till 2035. Or for obi better way for him would be is be a vice to Atiku. Then when he's done run for office. if he thinks the northerners would vote for him then he's in a dream world. The north always has the voting power in any election way more than the south.

We say no to cash and carry primary election.

Sir, you ain’t even known at all.

Let’s see what happens between Atiku and Obi fes. Even then you ain’t even there at all

madridguy:
One man will soon run away from the ADC

🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃This 2-legged table you're shaking ehn.... God is watching you in 3D

Ahh ahhhh ahhhhrrr, Yarimo

Atiku will emerge as usual.
He has never step down for anyone in the history of being in politics.



If Atiku as presidential candidate,then landslide victory for Tinubu, the failure.

This man that brought buhari with other sycophants supporters to power is saying gibberish..he should go and sit down he's not going anywhere cus he's one of the architect to Nigeria’s problems..now he's crying out blood

Yes oo so that delegates can cash out on Atiku money. I can guess the amount he would offer $30K per delegate

Mr Rotimi Amaechi is self centred and would leave the ADC the moment he hasn't clinched the ticket as the presidential flag bearer. Does that cat thinks he can win an election with his self centred ideology?

There MUST be. That is where we will scatter you all.

This werey dey use Benin Republic as example, why you no go there nah. Benin republic citizens are working as slaves in Nigeria and this Rotimi is now using same country as a good example

MOFIFIED: 27-05-2026


Shey ADC don scatter abi e never scatter?

AWONEYAN:
Rotimi Ameachi overates himself.
I listened to the interview on channels

He was asked how can he win primary against PObi with 6.1M and Atiku 6M vote.
He said, he led Buhari's team and gave 15M votes as if na him get the votes.
He can't even win in River state.
He even gaslighted the ADC , he said despite the 6.M votes of PObi in last election, why is ADC membership struggling with to reach 3M.

Na Rotimi go use his mouth scatter this coalition at last

Some of you don't even use wisdom before commenting in public. I don't know if it is just normal for you people to live in ignorance or to have sense is just something you people find so hard to acquire. It's a shame

Amaechi should get ready to be insulted by obidients because of this statement.

It is not their fault, it's just how they're wired.

fabolouz1:
Mr Rotimi Amaechi is self centred and would leave the ADC the moment he hasn't clinched the ticket as the presidential flag bearer. Does that cat thinks he can win an election with his self centred ideology?

Amaechi joined the ADC long before your gate crashing crew decided to move in and hijack the party.

You seem to be mistaken Amaechi for your Obi who ran away from the LP after burning bridges there.

AWONEYAN:
Rotimi Ameachi overates himself.
I listened to the interview on channels

He was asked how can he win primary against PObi with 6.1M and Atiku 6M vote.
He said, he led Buhari's team and gave 15M votes as if na him get the votes.
He can't even win in River state.
He even gaslighted the ADC , he said despite the 6.M votes of PObi in last election, why is ADC membership struggling with to reach 3M.

Na Rotimi go use his mouth scatter this coalition at last

Dude has no political value but he has a lot of money for buying delegates

But he's no longer in government and has no reliable source of income, so Atiku will outspend him.

If Atiku doesn't pick Obi as his running mate, Obi will decamp.

Fight for surviver has started now, but they will still blame Tinubu for the outcome.

There must be primary election.

Direct spit into Peter Obi's eyes.

AWONEYAN:
Rotimi Ameachi overates himself.
I listened to the interview on channels

He was asked how can he win primary against PObi with 6.1M and Atiku 6M vote.
He said, he led Buhari's team and gave 15M votes as if na him get the votes.
He can't even win in River state.

He even gaslighted the ADC , he said despite the 6.M votes of PObi in last election, why is ADC membership struggling with to reach 3M.

Na Rotimi go use his mouth scatter this coalition at last

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It is now obvious that the 6 million votes were forged votes. All they have now is 3M members consisting of Kwankwaso 1M, Atiku 1M, Obi 500K, David Mark 100K, Aregbesola 100K, Amaechi 50K, other noise makers combined 250K

fabolouz1:
Mr Rotimi Amaechi is self centred and would leave the ADC the moment he hasn't clinched the ticket as the presidential flag bearer. Does that cat thinks he can win an election with his self centred ideology?

How many elections have Peter Obi won in his life?
Tell us.
Obi was installed by the court, same as Amaechi.
So, what are you talking about?

Peter Obi will contest and be humiliated at the primaries or, he will run away and be humiliated at the polls.

Parachoko:
Atiku and Amechi will Outspend the Fraud

PO has given you guys your worse nightmare.

Seems Atiku wants consensus with his northern backing

Obi wants open play

Amaechi wants open play

If we are to be honest with how we have practised democracy since 1999, it should rotate not to the SW, not to the SS but the SE. You can say all you want, that's just the truth. I would have loved stiff competition from the SE but it's obvious who has the people's currency at the moment.

Now, when you listen to arguments from Atikulates, they are saying the calculations are not correct. That Jonathan used 2 years of Yar'Adua and that rotation does not matter. They are forgetting something. After 8 years of Buhari, it's not a popular opinion in Southern Nigeria that power should return to the North now. If ADC is not careful and they make a mistake, power will remain with Tinubu and they will make a critical mistake PDP made, part of which Atiku and Amaechi were part of in 2014-15.

Atiku is still living the trauma of never winning the Presidency. Old people have the baggage of what they could not do during their youth and we have seen this with Buhari, Obasanjo and now Tinubu. Tinubu went one step further to change our national anthem to the old. Buhari entered and first thing on his mind was Dasuki. Atiku will most likely delegate the work to others and will not be hands-on like Tinubu because of his age. But someone also has to tell Atiku that the world has moved on...

They are well spent in politics of the past while these young people are not interested in these old faces. That's one message Atiku is not getting. Those who voted for him in 2019 are now 7 years older. Since that time, children who were 11 years old are now 18. Since Atiku started contesting in 1993, a child of that age is now 33. Since he was a Vice President in 2007, a child then now is 19.

Approximately 39.65% (roughly 37 million) of registered voters are between the ages of 18 and 34. In the lead-up to the 2023 elections, 84% of the 10 million newly registered voters fell into this age category. Those aged 35–49 (Middle-Aged Voters) make up roughly 35.75% of the electorate.

Read the room.

SixSeven:
Aside Obi and Kwankwanso, no other politician has been able to prove themselves ALONE outside the establishment.

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Obi has the brightest chance going by the last election result followed by Kwankwanso. I choose these two because they left PDP and did not have the structure of the regular party, which Atiku benefitted from using the PDP platform. You also have to look at the time they had to test themselves between the election primaries and election.

If you want to know what that means, Ribadu ran the Presidential election in 2011 under AC and failed with that party structure. Obi and Kwankwanso have been able to test their popularity as candidates outside the regular establishments and done well. Both had no Governors in their party before contesting and pulled a good number in the last election. Buhari used his CPC to bargain with AC to get the Presidential slot in APC. Buhari could say whether he used ANPP or CPC, he could gather votes. I'm not so sure Atiku can do that. He was a presidential candidate of the Action Congress in the 2007 presidential election coming in third to Umaru Yar'Adua of the PDP and Muhammadu Buhari of the ANPP. Atiku came a distant third in that election with less than 10% of the votes.


Obi and Saraki/Kwankwanso

A Saraki will be a difficult campaign for APC that has defaulted to using tribes against themselves. Saraki ticks two boxes of Yoruba/North Central who have been looking for relevance since Gowon.

Here is the stats of the declared winners since 1999. Mr Bola Ahmed tinubu was not a popular president elect

Here is the brief, factual list of Nigeria’s presidential election winners since 1999, including each winner’s name and the percentage of valid votes they received.

1999 – Olusegun Obasanjo: about 62.78% of valid votes.

2003 – Olusegun Obasanjo: about 61.94% of valid votes.

2007 – Umaru Musa Yar’Adua: about 69.60% of valid votes.

2011 – Goodluck Jonathan: about 58.87% of valid votes.

2015 – Muhammadu Buhari: about 53.96% of valid votes.

2019 – Muhammadu Buhari: about 55.60% of valid votes.

2023 – Bola Ahmed tinubu: about 36.6–37% of valid votes.


A United opposition will defeat tinubu before the election begins. With a wiiiiiiiiiiiiiide margin. There is no need to argue about that.

Fact: Tinubu remains the most unpopular president to have won the Presidential elections. He is the easiest to kick out. Back then, PDP told AC, CPC and opposition parties when they were reigning that to kick us out, you need to unite as opposition. That's what they learned in 2015.

SixSeven:
You'd be surprised by how crafty they are. Don't forget what Atiku said yesterday about PDP and how they formed it. He was the VP but the real President, they deliberately chose Obasanjo who just came out of prison and had lost touch. He just confirmed what people had said all along yesterday when he said he recruited cabinet members among others. He was the de facto president who latched on to the sentiment of repaying Abiola and the country wanted a Yoruba man as compensation. That's why

1. The South West voted Falaye instead of Obasanjo

2. After the first term when Obasanjo's eyes opened, he tried to grab the SW in 2003 election and he tried to settle with Atiku. He had now become his own man. Search for Obasanjo begs Atiku in 2003.

Payback came when Atiku thought he would succeed Obasanjo and that man decided to publicly speak against him and publish books that wrote his image in red ink. Politics is a game of interests.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93szyjbrFvs

He is still a selfish man and is the kind of person Tinubu fears. Why? They know themselves. Tinubu has publicly admitted that the deal with Atiku saved him from the South West tsunami in 2003. They worked together in 2011, 2015 to play and remove Jonathan respectively. I can see Atiku's perspective. He feels that only the South East and South South was what was left to be captured in the last election and the North is already in the bag for him while Obi feels that with a Northern support, he will defeat Tinubu since he is quite popular in the South. Now I will advise Atiku to do a poll and find out whether people really want him or they just want his money.

He admitted yesterday that he had made some mistakes and I hope he doesn't make the same mistake like his brother Tinubu by running for President. Tinubu has been demystified now that he is President, he could have supported Osinbajo or any other candidate that the people willingly accepted back then. Atiku should read the room and endorse someone. If Tinubu did that in 2023, that candidate would have won smoothly but the man wanted to grab it, snatch it and run away with it and he's been falling and embrassing himself ever since. Presidency is not a small job, they both need to rest. Anyhow, I love the energy of Atiku who is older than Tinubu. It makes me question things.

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favour32:
Atiku will emerge as usual.
He has never step down for anyone in the history of being in politics.



If Atiku as presidential candidate,then landslide for Tinubu the failure.

He stepped down for Abiola in 1993.Fact check. I just needed to correct that. Shalom

Time for Obi to pack his kaya commot. I love Ameachi, if you are going to get the ticket you must work for it , Tinubu did not get Presidential ticket on a platter of Gold. He grap it , snacth it and usain bolt away with it.

Obi is looking for who will dash him ticket free of charge.

lol

Yemmysworld91:
He stepped down for Abiola in 1993.Fact check. I just needed to correct that. Shalom

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He didn't. Go and read well.
Atiku lost in the first round and was out of the race. So for the second round he had the option of aligning with Abiola or aligning with Kingibe, he chosed Abiola after making his calculations. And after Abiola defeated Kingibe at the second and final round, Abiola still chosed Kingibe as his running mate and promised Atiku another position.