‘Anybody on the ballot will defeat Tinubu’ – Dalung

Former Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Solomon Dalung, has expressed confidence that President Bola Tinubu would lose the 2027 presidential election, no matter who emerges as his opponent.

Dalung, a chieftain of the African Democratic Congress,ADC, made the assertion on Thursday throughout an look on Channels Television’s Politics Today, the place he mentioned the opposition’s probabilities of difficult the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.

Expressing his evaluation of Tinubu’s electoral power, Dalung mentioned even an odd individual picked from the road may defeat the President in a presidential contest.

“I have never seen a weak president in an election like Bola Ahmed Tinubu. If you drag anybody on the street and put him on a ballot at a contest with Tinubu, he will defeat him,” he mentioned.

The ADC chieftain made the feedback whereas responding to questions on how opposition events may overcome the APC’s monetary assets amid the ADC’s ongoing management dispute and authorized challenges.

Dalung additionally accused the ruling social gathering of irritating opposition marketing campaign actions, alleging that venues for rallies had been closed, accommodations taken over and social gathering places of work sealed.

Comparing the state of affairs with the 2014 election interval, he argued that the APC would have struggled to marketing campaign if the then-ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, had imposed comparable restrictions on its actions.

He maintained that pushing opposition events to carry gatherings on the streets wouldn’t weaken their assist base, insisting that these attending such occasions have been real supporters fairly than crowds employed to fill political rallies.

According to him, the folks turning out for opposition gatherings have been potential voters who would decide the result of the 2027 election.