The lawmaker representing Edo North at the Senate, Adams Oshiomhole, has claimed that former Vice President Atiku Abubakar is now the best campaigner of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
Speaking during an appearance on Channels Television, Oshiomhole boasted that divisions among opposition leaders will make it easy for the APC to retain power in 2027.
He stated that Atiku is APC’s “best campaign manager” because of his alleged attacks on fellow opposition aspirant, Peter Obi.
According to him, Obi and former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, have also been attacking each other, a development the former Edo State governor believes will work in the APC’s favour in 2027.
“You mean that APC would be worried about which of the parties now… ADC? I saw Atiku. Atiku is now our best campaign manager because he is attacking Obi, and I see Obi attacking Amaechi. I see Amaechi say Obi is a regional player, Atiku is a regional player, and he is the only national player, but he didn’t tell us what his ward unit looks like,” Oshiomhole said.
The lawmaker expressed confidence that the opposition would be roundly defeated in the 2027 elections, irrespective of any coalition plans.
He challenged opposition leaders to tell Nigerians what they would do differently from the policies currently being implemented by President Bola Tinubu.
“So, the opposition can have their dreams, but they will be defeated flatly because nobody believes them. They have to speak to the new policies that they would reverse, whether they would reverse taxation, reverse fuel subsidy removal, student loans, or reverse any of those bold decisions that President Tinubu has taken,” he said.
Oshiomhole accused opposition leaders of being united only by their desire for power.
He added that Tinubu had ventured into difficult terrain to re-engineer the Nigerian economy through tough policy decisions.