{"id":168348,"date":"2025-07-04T12:15:41","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T11:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/baba-ahmed-suggests-what-can-make-break-coalition"},"modified":"2025-07-04T13:27:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T12:27:25","slug":"baba-ahmed-suggests-what-can-make-break-coalition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/baba-ahmed-suggests-what-can-make-break-coalition","title":{"rendered":"Baba-Ahmed suggests what can make, break coalition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The vice-presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 general election, Yusuf Datti Ahmed, has suggested that the coalition against the government of President Bola Tinubu might not endure until the end.<\/p>\n<p>The billionaire businessman wondered what would become of the coalition if figures like Peter Obi or Chibuike Amaechi failed to secure the sole ticket of the African Democratic Congress, ADC.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Arise News, the Labour Party\u2019s vice-presidential candidate noted that despite the great deal of excitement surrounding the coalition, \u201cI think we should not be swept away by this coalition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have key players, Peter Obi, I will call him first, Amaechi, Atiku and maybe Nasir El-Rufai, and they\u2019ve come together from diverse backgrounds with a variety of interests.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd out of these three, you can imagine that Atiku, Obi and Amaechi, clearly are front runners in this it makes me think, how will the contest be? That\u2019s a good point, because they are very close in the race, very, very close in the race.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat will the aftermath of this contest be? That\u2019s why I made the analogy and the example with the Buhari case, who was a distant outlier in the very distant from the park.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll these three are very close together. Now, if one wins, will two others still remain in the coalition?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former governor of Rivers State, Chibuike Amaechi; former Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai; former Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi; former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar; and former Senate President, David Mark, among others, are leading the coalition, which has adopted the ADC as its platform to contest the 2027 presidential election.<\/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. The vice-presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 general election, Yusuf Datti Ahmed, has suggested that the coalition against the government of President Bola Tinubu might not endure until the end. 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