Monday, August 25, 2025 - Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has vowed to contest for Nigeria’s number one political seat in the 2027 presidential election.
Atiku, a former chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP), accused the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of trying to ridicule
and play down the current momentum in the African Democratic Congress (ADC).
Atiku stated that the ADC coalition will shock the
world in the 2027 presidential
While dismissing insinuation that he might not contest the
presidential poll in 2027, Atiku said that he will run for the nation’s top job
in the next election cycle.
This was made known by one of his spokespersons during the
2023 presidential election, Tunde Olusunle.
Speaking to ThisDay on Sunday night, Olusunle quoted his
ex-principal as maintaining that Nigeria needs to be decisively rescued from
the ‘intensive care’ unit it has been consigned to under the Bola Tinubu
government.
Atiku decried what he described as the unprecedented
‘thievery’ in the current administration, highlighting the need to ‘rescue’ the
country from its current leaders.
“The accompanying deceit, the loss of values, the
mega-scale, unimpeded thievery and the absolute lack of accountability must
disturb every concerned patriot. I will be offering myself to lead the
reclamation and reconstruction of our traumatised homeland,” Olusunle quoted
Atiku as having said, after conferring with him.
Atiku explained that the coalition which he is leading under
the ADC is to galvanise popular support for the liberation of Nigeria
“ADC is leading a potent mass movement which will shock the
world. We will upstage the status quo in a way which will leave doubters
dumbstruck,” he maintained.
Contrary to recent reports to the effect that he may opt out
of the 2027 presidential contest, Atiku restated that he will run for the
nation’s top job.
Naija News reports
that Atiku was quoted to have said at the weekend that his commitment to
the evolution of a better Nigeria far outweighed his quest to be President.
Prof Ola Olateju of the Achievers University, Owo, Ondo state, who represented
him at the defection of several top political figures to ADC in Lagos,
suggested that Atiku was not enamoured about occupying Aso Rock at all costs.
“Atiku Abubakar’s plan is to build a better
Nigeria, it’s not about being President. It’s about establishing a government
that works for Nigerians. That’s why some of us are with him, not because Atiku
must be President at all costs,” Olateju was widely reported to have
said at the event he stood in for Atiku.
However, Olusunle stated that after reading the report from
his holiday home in the United Arab Emirates, (UAE), Atiku disowned the
statement, insisting that the message conveyed during the event was not
sanctioned by him.
“I did not issue that statement,” he
said. “When people stand in for me at events, we preview my thoughts on
the instant subject and what my contribution or intervention will be, so we are
on the same page. In this particular instance, there was no engagement with me
to distill my thoughts. Prof Olateju was not speaking for me,” he
stated.
Atiku added: “I will run in 2027. Nigeria
needs to be decisively rescued from the intensive care unit it has been
consigned. The degeneration in our country, the level of poverty and pain, the
anguish, is unacceptable.”
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