The Battle lines are drawn for a very competitive Presidential Election in Nigeria in 2027 when those who are alleging that Tinubu and the APC want to create a one party system in Nigeria would have to admit that they fumbled big time.
Nigerians should closely watch ADC candidates like Atiku and Rotimi Amaechi and the others and whether or not they are willing to forever shelve their own presidential ambitions just to gang up against Tinubu who must show the nation concrete proof of what he has done in his first term to change the trajectory of Nigerian Politics
Nigerian voters must welcome the development and the ADC must also prove to the voters how and what they are going to do what they have never been able to do for 40 years as pointed out by the great and legendary Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka.
If Tinubu is able to create a few additional States and complete the two major Highways of Sokoto to Badagry and Calabar to Lagos .and give some appreciable relief to the voters before the election and stabilize Electricity Generation to minimize power outages in Nigeria, he and his Party would be hard to beat. It is a prediction.
Only the revolutionary Omoyele Sowore and his African Congress Party can truly claim to be the new Sheriff in town if he can find the cash to run a competitive race against the Octopus APC and the much weakened Wike faction of the PDP and Labor Party which have more or less merged with the ruling APC so to speak to confront the embattled ADC which is going to be outspent 5 times to one when the rubber meets the road. Tinubu the so-called “Adigbonoku” of Nigerian Politics is not a Saint by any means but he has something going for him that the whole country must acknowledge and cherish.
He is the first Southern Politician apart from Olusegun Obasanjo who may well become the legitimate and worthy father of modern Nigeria if the country is able to survive as one country.
He took on the Hausa/Fulani domination of Nigeria and he wrestled power out of their hands with tact and diplomacy that not even Obafemi Awolowo the best President Nigeria never had, was able to do.
Nigerians must give credit to Tinubu “Akanbi Ojuyobo Omo Olodo Ide” was able to do by some miracle.
Kwankwaso and his Kwankwasiya Movement would only divide the Kano vote but not nearly enough to snatch the ultimate victory from the modern “Osagyefo” of Nigeria the one and only Bola Ahmed Tinubu the Bat who has never lost any election in his entire political career as acknowledged by Muhammadu Buhari of Daura.
You can write it down. Tinubu would be re-elected again in 2027 and would set a record as one of the best Presidents of Nigeria based on his quantifiable accomplishments as President.
I am not a Prophet Marcus Tibetan or King Solomon or one of the Nigerian Prophets who speak in tongues and daily communicates with God.
Something tells me loud and clear, that Tinubu is going to be re-elected, one way or the other if he survives till 2027.
I rest my case.
Dr. Wumi Akintide writes from New York.
