A former Labour Party vice-presidential candidate, Datti Baba-Ahmed, has said that former Vice President Atiku Abubakar would have won the 2027 presidency if he had supported Peter Obi in the 2023 presidential poll.

Baba-Ahmed, who stated this during an interview on Inside Sources on Channels Television, said that if Atiku had been patient and acted like President Bola Tinubu, who offered others the political platform to contest presidential elections, he (Baba-Ahmed) would have agreed to step down in 2027 and urged Obi to do the same.

The former National Assembly lawmaker explained that Tinubu did not mind waiting when he offered his party’s presidential platform to politicians, including Atiku in 2007 and the late former President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015.

Baba-Ahmed further stated that he had cautioned the opposition coalition against “excessive excitement,” as Tinubu, who knows the game the coalition is playing, would unscrew every plan by the coalition.

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