A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Dan Ulasi has stated it’ll take extraordinary efforts to defeat President Bola Tinubu within the 2027 common election.
Ulasi described Tinubu as one in every of Nigeria’s most strategic politicians, warning opposition events towards underestimating his political energy forward of the subsequent presidential election.
He spoke on Friday whereas fielding questions on Arise Television’s Morning Show.
According to him, whereas some members had been expressing confidence that Atiku had already gained the election, he challenged their optimism, insisting that that they had not carried out sufficient political groundwork to assure victory.
Ulasi stated: “You know, in 2023, I stated on this platform that if anyone takes President Tinubu as a right, you’re doing it at your personal peril. He’s one of the strategic politicians on this nation.
“When he (Tinubu) was developing, we had an emergency assembly someplace.
“You know, Atiku, all people was there, and other people, governors and so they had been saying ‘you (Atiku), have won, you have won. You have won already’.
“I stated you should be jokers. And they stated I need to depart the assembly. I stated if I depart this assembly, all people will stroll out right here, and I obtained up.
“Lots of people adopted me, however Atiku referred to as me. I got here again. I stated, ‘Like who has gained?
“That Atiku sitting down right here has..which election has they gained towards Tinubu?
“What have we carried out on the bottom to present that Atiku will win? And we went to that election. What occurred? Tinubu gained.
“We are once more in one other circle of election. Like you learn, they stated the opposition is so fragmented now, worse than it was in 2023.
“So solely God will reply that query. Is there some divine course of happening?
“But as things are on the ground, it will take some magic for anybody to stop Tinubu. I can tell you that.”
