The Director-General of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) Presidential Campaign Council, Ibrahim Abdulkarim, has urged former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and other opposition leaders to join Peter Obi and Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso ahead of the 2027 presidential election.
Abdulkarim said the opposition must unite under one platform if it hopes to defeat the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
Speaking on Arise News, he said the coalition could take shape under the NDC, rather than the African Democratic Congress (ADC), adding that Kwankwaso had already dropped his presidential ambition to work with Obi.
“The opposition has to come together for us to win. The opposition have already come together. Nobody said the coalition must happen on ADC. It can happen in NDC, and Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso has already dropped his ambition,” he said.
The NDC campaign chief specifically called on Atiku to join the alliance, saying his participation could strengthen the opposition’s national reach.
“What we are asking for is for other people to join us, including former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, to join all of us, so at least we will have the spread that they think they can add,” Abdulkarim said.
He also dismissed concerns about the NDC’s campaign structure, arguing that the party should not be compared with the various support groups backing Obi.
“How can you compare a party with a support group? We don’t have any problem. They’re all part of the NDC party. We have more than a thousand support groups like that,” he said.
Abdulkarim further assured Nigerians concerned about electoral fraud that the party had a programme aimed at protecting votes during the election.
He said the NDC would campaign peacefully across the country and mobilise voters who had lost confidence in the electoral process.
“We are going to do our campaign peacefully. We are going to go into every corner,” he said.
