2027: I'm glad opposition coalition didn't work, Tinubu desires to be solely candidate – Buba Galadima

A chieftain of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, Buba Galadima, has expressed gladness that the opposition coalition didn’t work.

Galadima puzzled in regards to the destiny of the opposition if the coalition had labored, as a result of President Bola Tinubu desires to be the one presidential candidate.

In an interview with AIT, the elder statesman stated: “I’m glad the coalition didn’t work. If all of us were in the ADC, what would be our fate? Two, three years ago, I said President Tinubu does not believe in competition; he wants to run as a single candidate.

‘The accord is that the opposition parties should have a particular candidate against the ruling party. If we had concluded that and Tinubu asks the judiciary to nullify that party, where do we head to?

“What we hear, if I have been to place it on the desk, is that the nation will burn. If you may have any case towards any APC particular person, we learnt that the judges will go to the opponent and ask what sort of judgment he would give.”

Galadima also disclosed why he supported the African Democratic Congress, ADC, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar when he was in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in 2019.

He added: “I at all times help competence and justice. I supported Atiku in 2019 as a result of I believed that any Nigerian was higher than Buhari. I wasn’t a member of the PDP, however I supported him as a result of we had an alliance between the R-APC, of which I used to be the National Chairman, and the PDP.

“It was that alliance that made me one of the spokespersons of Atiku Abubakar, so it was not Atiku; it was the alliance that I was supporting.

“Even if it is my father, if he would not have the standard of management that I want, I will not help him. After all, my daughter and I are in several political events.”