Publisher and former presidential aspirant Dele Momodu has named ex-Vice President Atiku Abubakar, former Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi, and Labour Party’s 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi, as the leading figures likely to emerge in the race for the African Democratic Congress presidential ticket ahead of the 2027 election.
Momodu, who is also a chieftain of the ADC, shared his views on Thursday, January 8, while speaking on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily.
“Today, if you ask me in ADC, there are prominent potential candidates. Number one on the list today will be Alhaji Atiku Abubakar because he was a vice president.
“He has played at the highest level of being former vice president for eight years. He started contesting the presidency in 1993 when he stepped down for Chief Abola.
“The next person will be Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, who has been speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly for eight years.
“He’s been governor for eight years. He’s been minister for eight years. Then we will go to Peter Obi, who has been a governor of Anambra State also for two terms,” Momodu said.
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He called on members of the ADC and the broader opposition coalition to put aside personal ambitions and work collectively to challenge President Bola Tinubu, whom he accused of pushing Nigeria towards a one-party state.
“We need the cooperation of everybody. That is why we call it a coalition. It’s not a one-man thing, and Nigeria does not recognize independent candidacy,” the publisher said.
Atiku, who served as vice president between 1999 and 2007 under the PDP, left the party last year and later aligned with the ADC.
Obi, who was Atiku’s running mate in the 2019 presidential election on the PDP platform, recently exited the Labour Party and joined the ADC after contesting the 2023 election as its presidential candidate.
Amaechi, a former minister and two-term governor of Rivers State, was among the early political figures to pitch his tent with the ADC and has remained a vocal critic of President Tinubu’s administration.
All three were among the key political actors who officially unveiled the ADC as the platform for the opposition coalition ahead of the 2027 general election.