APC Foresees Collapse of 2027 Alliance Plan Between Obi and Kwankwaso

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has stated that it remains unbothered and unconcerned about the proposed alliance between Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria People’s Party, NNPP, and Peter Obi of the Labour Party, LP, in preparation for the 2027 presidential election.

The National Publicity Director of the APC, Bala Ibrahim, made this known in an interview with The PUNCH on Monday.

He disclosed that the touted Obi-Kwankwaso alliance would fail again as it did ahead of the 2023 presidential election.

According to him, a lack of trust will always be an issue between Obi and Kwankwaso, and neither of them will be willing to concede their ambition to become President.

Kwankwaso had in a recent post, said he would not mind being Obi’s running mate in 2027 if certain conditions, which he did not disclose, were met.

Responding to this on Sunday, the National Secretary of the Labour Party, Umar Farouk, described Kwankwaso’s offer as welcome, saying the merger could work if Kwankwaso would be humble enough to work with Obi.

However, when asked to react to the proposed Obi-Kwankwaso alliance against President Bola Tinubu in 2027, the APC National Publicity Director, Ibrahim, asserted that the proposed alliance would not see the light of day.

He argued that the factors that collapsed the proposed alliance in 2023 were still very much alive.

Ibrahim said, “The underlying and most important factor in that permutation is the word trust, which will be the bane of their agreement. These are experiments that have been conducted several times, and the results cannot be expected to change unless the factor responsible for that result changes. If you don’t change the factor and you carry out the same experiment under the same condition, expecting a different result, you are only deceiving yourself. This is a scientific procedure.

“Now, Kwankwaso and Peter Obi have tried forming an alliance in the past on several occasions, but their romance didn’t last beyond the bedroom. This is because they are strange bedfellows who can’t sleep in the same room. Both of them have one ambition—to lead the country at all costs—and neither is willing to surrender the seat to the other simply because there is this superiority complex between them.

“As long as that complex exists, and it is not likely to diminish, there is not going to be any change to warrant the APC having sleepless nights. What they are proposing now is just rhetoric because they are seeing the progress the APC is making and the changes happening in the political scene. They know that come 2027, the victory of the APC is fait accompli. All they are making is just noise to survive. It is also the ranting of a party destined for doom. So, there is nothing there to give the APC any worry at all. It is a merger that won’t come to pass.”