{"id":165702,"date":"2025-06-04T23:33:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T22:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/2027-why-coalition-against-tinubu-slowed-down-umar-ardo"},"modified":"2025-06-05T00:42:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T23:42:00","slug":"2027-why-coalition-against-tinubu-slowed-down-umar-ardo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-why-coalition-against-tinubu-slowed-down-umar-ardo","title":{"rendered":"2027: Why coalition against Tinubu slowed down \u2013 Umar Ardo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Convener, League of Northern Democrats, Umar Ardo, on Wednesday explained why the momentum of the political coalition to oust President Bola Tinubu in 2027 has slowed down.<\/p>\n<p>Ardo disclosed that the coalition is currently facing an ideology crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, ex-Governors of Rivers and Kaduna States, Rotimi Amaechi, and Nasir El-Rufai, including former presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi, are in talks to form a coalition to challenge Tinubu in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Arise Television\u2019s Morning Show programme on Wednesday, he stated that predominant members and leaders of the coalition were in support of fusing into an existing political party.<\/p>\n<p>Ardo, however, revealed that another group of the coalition is in support of registering a whole new political party.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cI think the coalition will stand. At the formative stage usually you have these hiccups, but over time, they will shape up.<\/p>\n<p>And basically, the coalition is in place, but it\u2019s just divided on the basis of ideology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, when I say ideology, I say, I mean approach \u2014 how to approach the politics.<\/p>\n<p>Predominant members and even leaders of the coalition are in support of fusing into an existing political party, and another group, which I belong to, is in support of registering a whole new political party.<\/p>\n<p>This is actually where things stand, and I don\u2019t know what the ultimate decision will be by the leaders and key stakeholders and movers of the coalition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we insist, from our side, that our approach of establishing a new political party by the coalition is the best way to approach this transitional politics, and it is, for me, almost almost certain of victory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Convener, League of Northern Democrats, Umar Ardo, on Wednesday explained why the momentum of the political coalition to oust President Bola Tinubu in 2027 has slowed down. Ardo disclosed that the coalition is currently facing an ideology crisis. Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, ex-Governors of Rivers and Kaduna States, Rotimi Amaechi, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":165701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[13554,254,945,17672],"class_list":["post-165702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-13554","tag-nigeria","tag-tinubu","tag-umar-ardo"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>2027: Why coalition against Tinubu slowed down \u2013 Umar Ardo - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Convener, League of Northern Democrats, Umar Ardo, on Wednesday explained why the momentum of the political coalition to ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-why-coalition-against-tinubu-slowed-down-umar-ardo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"2027: Why coalition against Tinubu slowed down \u2013 Umar Ardo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Convener, League of Northern Democrats, Umar Ardo, on Wednesday explained why the momentum of the political coalition to ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-why-coalition-against-tinubu-slowed-down-umar-ardo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-06-04T22:33:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-06-04T23:42:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/06\/sm_1749067960.875068.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1556\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1110\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-why-coalition-against-tinubu-slowed-down-umar-ardo#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-why-coalition-against-tinubu-slowed-down-umar-ardo\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"2027: Why coalition against Tinubu slowed down \u2013 Umar Ardo\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-06-04T22:33:15+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-06-04T23:42:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-why-coalition-against-tinubu-slowed-down-umar-ardo\"},\"wordCount\":300,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-why-coalition-against-tinubu-slowed-down-umar-ardo#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/06\/sm_1749067960.875068.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"2027\",\"Nigeria\",\"Tinubu\",\"Umar ardo\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-why-coalition-against-tinubu-slowed-down-umar-ardo#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-why-coalition-against-tinubu-slowed-down-umar-ardo\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-why-coalition-against-tinubu-slowed-down-umar-ardo\",\"name\":\"2027: Why coalition against Tinubu slowed down \u2013 Umar Ardo - 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