Ali Modu Sheriff: ADC will die down in three months — Peter Obi will soon return to PDP
Ali Modu Sheriff, the former governor of Borno, says the opposition party, the African Democratic Congress (ADC), will die down in the next three months.
Speaking during Politics Today, a Channels Television programme, Sheriff said the party does not exist in the first instance, despite parading an array of political bigwigs, including former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 elections, among others.
On July 2, the opposition coalition adopted the ADC as the platform to contest the 2027 elections and wrest power from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
However, Sheriff, a former national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), said Obi will return to the main opposition party and run as its presidential candidate in 2027.
“As far as this politics is concerned, they (ADC) don’t exist. Give the party three months and it will die down,” he said.
“The information available to me is that any moment from now Peter Obi will go back to PDP and run as a presidential candidate under PDP.”
He also predicted victory for President Bola Tinubu in the next elections.
“I can tell you for free, the only things that will stop President Tinubu from winning the election in 2027 are only two factors,” Sheriff said.
“One, if there are no elections in Nigeria; two, if he decides not to run. Otherwise, politically, I look at reality. Politics is a different ball game.”
