Ibadan meeting: Atiku, Obi, Kwankwaso still have opportunity for grand alliance — Ologbondiyan

•2027: ‘Hungry Nigerians, not the opposition, will give Tinubu sleepless nights’

By Luminous Jannamike, Abuja

Few opposition figures have witnessed Nigeria’s political twists and realignments from as close a vantage point as Kola Ologbondiyan. A former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), he now serves as Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the National Chairman of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Senator David Mark, placing him at the centre of fresh efforts to forge a formidable opposition ahead of the 2027 general election. In this interview, Ologbondiyan speaks on the prospects of a united opposition, the PDP’s lingering crisis, the ADC’s mission, and why he believes President Bola Tinubu’s biggest political test in 2027 will come not from rival parties, but from millions of Nigerians battling economic hardship. Excerpts:

You spent years shaping the PDP’s public communication. Looking at where the opposition stands today, with the ADC and NDC pulling in different directions, do you still believe, it can mount a credible challenge to President Tinubu before the January 2027 election?

I strongly believe so. And my belief is based on the decision reached at the meeting held in Ibadan among all the opposition political parties to look at that proposed grand alliance. The decision reached by the majority of the opposition parties was that, at the nick of time, they were going to pull together. I believe that the opposition political parties are going to realign and work in the direction of rescuing our nation from the path of perdition into which it is gradually drifting.

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