Bashir El-Rufai, the son of former Kaduna State governor Nasir El-Rufai, has asserted that the Labour Party’s presidential candidate within the 2023 common election, Peter Obi, stood a greater likelihood of defeating incumbent President Bola Tinubu within the 2027 elections.
Bashir said this in a submit on X (previously Twitter) on Thursday, opining that even former Vice President Atiku Abubakar was not able to defeating President Tinubu if Obi picks a formidable northern operating mate.
In response to Bashir, Obi poses a severe menace to Atiku, notably resulting from his important youth followers and broad-based grassroots reputation.
“Atiku is a power to be reckoned with. He additionally feels the celebrities have lastly aligned in his favour,” he wrote.
“And though 2019 is assumed to have been his finest shot, this can be a kind of ‘second meets the person’.
“Nevertheless, the sheer power of Obi’s numbers and cult-like follower-ship brings a problem. His attraction throughout the youth & this youthful era is one profound side of his leverage. Obi, as a flag bearer with a powerful Northern candidate, would defeat Pablo on election day earlier than our expensive mom of the nation — Aunty Remi finishes his breakfast round midday.”
LEADERSHIP recollects that Bashir’s father, El-rufai together with different opposition leaders together with Atiku, Obi, former Rivers State governor Rotimi Amaechi, former Senate President David Mark and former Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, amongst others, fashioned an alliance which was unveiled in Abuja on March 20 on the platform of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) to contest the 2027 elections.
The coalition goals to defeat the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) within the subsequent common election.
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