“All this fantasy of coalition — we are going to have a good two to three weeks of romanticising… but one of them, his name is Datti (Baba-Ahmed), has already sensed the danger ahead and said the problem of this coalition will be who becomes the president, ‘everybody wants to be president. After one month, when they sit down, I am telling you on my honour, in the next six months, that coalition will not even be a conversation. They will scatter.”

“The July 1 coalition declaration and the July 2 unveiling of the ADC have rattled the ruling party. It is now obvious that the Tinubu administration, having lost the trust of the Nigerian people, cannot withstand the pressure of a united and credible opposition. But rather than correct its ways, it has resorted to its old playbook of destabilising opposition parties.”

Cartoon: ‘Hello, Gentlemen, name your price’

“He (Atiku) will continue to provide direction and ensure the coalition gains traction at all levels: ward, local government, and state. By the end of this year, anyone standing in the way of this coalition will have himself to blame,”

Who will step down for the other? That is the key question a political analyst, Prof Okey Ikechukwu, tries
to answer in this interview as the anti-Tinubu coalition moved into the African Democratic Congress
(ADC), last week, to confront the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2027 polls.