2027 election: Any politician that wants to win must align with APC – National Secretary, Basiru

National Secretary of the All Progressive Congress, Ajibola Basiru, has said that any politician who is serious about winning elections must align with the party.

According to Basiru, aside the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, the APC is the only party that has tasted victory in national elections.

He said that makes the ruling party a proven vehicle to victory and the strongest political party in the country. 

Basiru pointed out that the coalition coming against the APC in 2027 has nothing to show in terms of electoral victory.

He told Arise News, “Aside from the PDP, APC remains the strongest political machinery for winning elections in Nigeria today. 

“Many of the groups calling themselves coalitions are yet to prove themselves as credible electoral forces, and for now, they appear more like political distractions than serious alternatives.”

APC officially came to power in 2015 through a coalition that came together in 2013 and picked Muhammadu Buhari as its presidential candidate.

Buhari defeated Goodluck Jonathan, an incumbent president in what was seen as historic in Nigerian political history, marking the very first time an opposition party peacefully unseated a ruling party. 

It was a merger of three major legacy opposition parties, the ACN, CPC, and ANPP that formed the APC, which came with a change mantra.