APC Ally: Atiku Push Aims to Split ADC Coalition

An ally of former Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai has accused some APC northern leaders of pushing Atiku Abubakar’s name to fracture the African Democratic Congress coalition.

The claim, shared widely on social media, insists the move is designed to dampen the morale of Peter Obi’s supporters and Rotimi Amaechi’s backers in the South.

According to the ally, the ADC’s rising momentum across the North has little to do with Atiku alone. It is fuelled instead by the daily hardship and poverty Nigerians continue to endure under President Bola Tinubu’s government.

NaijaChoice News reports that the statement directly challenges any attempt to credit one individual for the coalition’s growing strength.

The ally described Atiku as a major political force but stressed that every leader in the alliance, from Obi to Amaechi to El-Rufai, brings value.

On Peter Obi’s standing in the North, the ally dismissed suggestions that the former Anambra governor is unknown there. Obi won Plateau and Taraba in 2023 and recorded solid votes in Kaduna, Nasarawa, Adamawa and Benue, the statement noted.

While some northerners found Obi’s 2023 strategy discouraging, the ally called for forgiveness, pointing out that the APC itself ran a Muslim-Muslim ticket purely for electoral convenience.

The post argued it would be hypocritical for the North to hold Obi’s tactics against him when similar moves were made by the ruling party.

Ultimately, the ally insisted the ADC wave is bigger than any single politician. Nigerians are simply reacting to empty markets, rising costs and daily struggles, the statement said.

Whether it is Obi, Amaechi, Kwankwaso, El-Rufai or Atiku, the rallying cry remains the same: Tinubu must go.

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