2027: There Is No Automatic Ticket For Peter Obi, Atiku – ADC

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has insisted there is no automatic presidential ticket for any aspirant in 2027.

Abia Radio News reports that former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, and the Labour Party (LP) 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi, who recently joined the party, are eyeing the presidential ticket.

Although the Atiku camp has maintained silence on his ambition, members of the Obedient Movement have maintained that the former Governor of Anambra State would not play second fiddle.

However, the ADC National Publicity Secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi, in an interview on Channels Television’s ‘Politics Today’, said no decision has been made on who will run on the presidential ticket, stressing that all aspirants are eligible.

According to Abdullahi, while the consensus option would be adopted to select the standard bearer, members would resort to an open, competitive, and transparent primary if that option fails.

He said, “No conversation is going on at the moment about who will be the standard bearer or who will be running mate to who. Every single issue has not been resolved regarding who will fly the flag of the party in 2027.

“But when that time comes, we are going to have a position, and our first recourse will be to try to engineer a measure of consensus based on the challenges that we have ahead of us. We are building a coalition, and we are building a winning coalition.

 “If that doesn’t happen, of course, we are going to have competitive primary, and it’s going to be free, it’s going to be open, and it’s going to be transparent, and every Nigerian will see that this is the direction that ADC wants to go, as a party of rules, as a party that is transparent, that obeys its own laws and regulation.”