Thursday, October 22, 2026 -The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Professor Nentawe Yilwatda has claimed that some opposition parties, including the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, are backing President Bola Tinubu’s re-election bid ahead of the 2027 general elections.
Yilwatda made the claim on Tuesday in Abuja after meeting
with Tinubu alongside the Director-General of the APC Presidential Campaign
Council, Abdul’aziz Yari.
The meeting was to brief the president on preparations for
the APC’s presidential campaign ahead of the 2027 elections.
The APC chairman listed the PDP, the All Progressives Grand
Alliance, APGA and the Accord Party as opposition parties supporting Tinubu’s
second-term ambition.
“If you look at what the party is doing now, the opposition
parties are with us. All political parties that have defeated us in any
election are with us; PDP is with us, APGA is with us, Accord is with us.
“These are the only political parties that have defeated us,
except Allied People’s Movement, and they are all with us in this campaign,”
Yilwatda said.
However, the PDP has rejected claims of its support for
Tinubu’s re-election, insisting that the party remains opposed to the APC-led
Federal Government and its policies.
In a statement, the opposition party dismissed reports
attributed to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike,
suggesting that PDP candidates should dismantle their political structures and
support Tinubu’s re-election.
The PDP described the reported call as an attempt to
misrepresent the position of its genuine members, accusing some individuals
within the opposition of working in favour of the ruling party.
“The true and principled members of the Peoples Democratic
Party are not part of the shameless, self-serving support for the APC-led
Federal Government and its destructive policies,” the statement said.
The party argued that the primary responsibility of the
opposition was to offer Nigerians an alternative to the ruling government,
rather than support its continued stay in power.
It added that any proposed alliance among opposition parties
should be directed towards strengthening the opposition rather than
collaborating with the APC.
“If at all opposition parties are to have an alliance, it
will be amongst themselves, not with the governing party,” the PDP stated.
The party also criticised the proposed “rainbow coalition,”
describing it as a threat to electoral democracy and warning that such an
arrangement could undermine political competition in the country.
The PDP urged its members to remain committed to the party
while awaiting the outcome of its case at the Court of Appeal, which it said
had already been heard.
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