The presidential candidate of the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP), Donald Duke, has predicted that President Bola Tinubu will win the 2027 presidential election if major opposition candidates fail to unite.
Duke said the division of opposition votes among former Vice President Atiku Abubakar of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Peter Obi of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), and other contenders could repeat the pattern of the 2023 election and give Tinubu an advantage.
The former Cross River State governor stated this while speaking on Channels Television’s Morning Brief on Wednesday, where he discussed the chances of opposition candidates in the 2027 election.
Duke warned that the opposition would struggle to defeat the ruling party if major contenders continued to pursue separate presidential bids.
“We don’t understand what we’re doing. If in the United States, which is the system we’ve largely just copied verbatim from, they have two major parties. If you fragmented the Democrats, for instance, into two or three other parties, the Republicans will remain in office forever. That’s what we’re doing,” he said.
Duke recalled that the division of opposition votes among major candidates contributed to the outcome of the 2023 presidential election.
“In 2023, we fragmented, and all the major opposition came from PDP. You had Vice President Atiku from the PDP. You had Peter, Labour at the time, and you had Kwankwaso. They fragmented,” he said.
He attributed the difficulty of forming a united opposition platform partly to what he described as the “large egos” of the leading contenders.
According to Duke, the major opposition figures appeared confident about their chances in 2027, but could be disappointed if they failed to work together.
“These guys, the big ones you’re talking about, they’re preparing for inauguration. They think they’re going to win. I have news for them. They’re not going anywhere,” he said.
Duke said he did not see any of the major opposition candidates defeating Tinubu if the opposition remained divided.
“If I look at a crystal ball, what I see in that crystal ball is not them. I see another horror coming up,” he said.
Asked whether his prediction meant Tinubu would win the 2027 presidential election, Duke replied, “Absolutely.”
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