The Peoples Redemption Party, PRP, presidential candidate, Donald Duke, has said President Bola Tinubu would win the 2027 general elections, if leading opposition candidates fail to unite.
He made the assertion during an interview on Channels Television’s The Morning Brief.
According to him, the splitting of opposition votes between Atiku Abubakar of the Africa Democratic Congress, ADC, and Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, could repeat the outcome of the 2023 presidential election and give Tinubu an advantage.
The former Cross River State Governor added that the opposition would struggle to defeat the ruling party if major contenders continued to pursue separate presidential bids.
“We don’t understand what we’re doing. In the United States, which is the system we’ve largely just copied verbatim from, they have two major parties. If you fragmented the Democrats, for instance, into two or three other parties, the Republicans will remain in office forever. That’s what we’re doing,” he said.
He further stated that divisions among major opposition figures in 2023 spread votes among different candidates.
“In 2023, we fragmented, and all the major opposition came from the PDP. You had Vice President Atiku from the PDP. You had Peter, Labour at the time, and you had Kwankwaso. They fragmented,” he added.
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