Former Aide Declares Opposition to Tinubu’s 2027 Re-Election Bid

Aliyu Audu, a former Senior Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Public Affairs, has declared that he resigned from the administration to actively work towards defeating Tinubu’s re-election bid in 2027.

In a candid interview on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily, Audu cited “principle and conscience” as the reasons behind his decision, accusing the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of attempting to establish a one-party state in Nigeria.

Audu’s comments were prompted by Tinubu’s Democracy Day speech, where the president appeared to gloat over the opposition’s disarray. “It confirmed it on one hand, and on the other hand, it strengthened my resolve to not work for him in 2027,” Audu said.

“I couldn’t in all honesty and in my conscience be in his government knowing I’m plotting against removal in 2027, because I will, and by God, we will remove him. Collectively, Nigerians will install a leader that will be our chosen, not his chosen. Not emilokan (my turn), but awa lokan (our turn), in fact, gbogbo wa lokan (all of us).”

Audu also questioned the inclusion of Nyesom Wike, a PDP member and current Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, in the APC-led government. “What is Wike doing in our government? If he’s going to leave the PDP, he should leave. If we’re doing a government of national unity, you deal with the party, not individuals.

The party is what we vote for not Bola Tinubu but APC; not Atiku but PDP; not Peter Obi but Labour Party.”

In his resignation letter dated June 8, Audu expressed concerns about the APC’s political direction and warned against suppressing opposition voices.

He emphasized that he would not contribute to reducing Nigeria to a one-party state. “If we now begin to silence or crush opposition simply because we have the upper hand, then we are no different from the very system we once criticised under Obasanjo in 2003.”

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