Buba Galadima: “Opposition Alliance Will Boot APC Out in 2027”
By: Abudu Olalekan
Description: Buba Galadima says opposition alliance is ready to chase APC out of power in 2027, with parties willing to queue behind most popular candidate.
Buba Galadima is not mincing words. The New Nigeria Peoples Party chieftain believes the opposition alliance currently being processed will kick the All Progressives Congress out of Aso Rock come 2027. Bold statement. But he seems very convinced.
Speaking to Reportersroom in Abuja, the engineer-turned-politician made it clear that opposition parties have learned from the mistakes of 2023. This time around, things will be different. The parties are ready to queue behind the most popular ticket.
“Tinubu cannot win the 2027 election, even if he has 36 governors supporting him. He wants to kill the opposition, but even if he arms the governors with all the money, the opposition will not die,” Galadima declared.
He didn’t stop there. According to him, having all governors on one side might actually backfire on the president. “APC may implode because it is not to Tinubu’s advantage to have every governor on one side,” he warned.
The opposition parties are talking. That much is certain. Leaders from different camps are fishing for the best candidate to slug it out with President Bola Tinubu in the next election cycle.
When asked whether Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, leader of the NNPP, was ready to team up with Peter Obi of the Labour Party, Galadima’s response was interesting. Nothing has been firmed up yet, he said.
“People are saying different things. We have heard of Obi/Kwankwaso, some people are talking of Jonathan/Kwankwaso ticket,” he revealed.
But here’s the thing. Unlike 2023 when ego and personal ambitions scattered the opposition, Galadima believes this time will be different. Opposition parties will be persuaded to rally behind whoever has the biggest appeal to Nigerians.
“The choice of the candidate is going to be paramount in 2027,” he emphasized.
Then he dropped another bombshell. “If the PDP gets hold of the candidate they are looking at, that party will form the next government in 2027.”
Wait, what? PDP? Yes, you read that right.
Galadima seems confident that the crisis currently bedeviling the former ruling party will peter into oblivion when the time comes. He even asked to be quoted directly.
“I want you to quote me, PDP will win the presidential election in 2027. Tinubu will go,” he stated.
The NNPP chieftain also had some words for Kano State Governor Kabir Yusuf. Following the governor’s defection to the APC, Galadima insists he should hand over the mandate of the Kano people to the NNPP. The party, according to him, is the custodian of the mandate given to it in 2023.
“Kano governor must drop our mandate because when Kano people were voting in 2023, they voted for NNPP logo and we sent him on an errand to go and work for the people, something he detests,” Galadima said.
He claims Governor Yusuf spent most of his time in office working for the APC anyway. The governor allegedly paid billions of naira in severance packages to former aides of his predecessor, Abdullahi Ganduje, while refusing to assist NNPP members. The party will take the next available option on this matter very soon, he added.
Looking ahead to 2027, Galadima said the NNPP would go into alliances with like-minded parties. The goal is to bring about a country where democracy actually works for the people.
“It won’t be foolishness on our part if we align with parties that agree with our values. We can team up in an alliance and we can work together,” he stated.
Despite refusing to join the APC, Kwankwaso remains the most sought-after politician in the country today, according to Galadima. He’s quite proud of this fact.
“If you are observant, there is no one single politician that commands Kwankwaso’s followership individually. Our own support is organic,” he boasted.
He painted a picture of Kwankwaso’s influence. “There is no one politician who will sit down in Abuja and say I need one million persons, and they would come, without giving them a penny.”
Galadima outlined what any potential alliance partner must believe in: training people in skills, educating children of nobody and making them somebody, throwing away the Tax reforms, and using all resources to defend the country from banditry and Boko Haram.
“If we see people who believe in all that, he has a friend in us,” he concluded.
