2027: Atiku’s candidacy won’t jeopardise PDP’s chances — Segun Adewale

Former Chairman, Lagos State chapter of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Otunba Segun Adewale, popularly known as Aeroland, has said that the candidature of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar will not jeopardise the party’s chances in 2027 General Elections, noting that rather the anti-party activities of some leaders during elections would do.

Adewale, made this clarification, while speaking with newsmen, in reaction to a comment by former PDP Deputy National Chairman, Chief Olabode George, who claimed that Abubakar’s candidacy would destroy the party in 2027 polls.

The PDP chieftain said no person should say Atiku’s candidacy in 2027 would destroy the party, rather the anti-party activities of some leaders during elections would do, asserting that Atiku, who was the party’s candidate in the 2023 presidential poll, had been contributing to PDP for years.

“Atiku has been contributing to the party for years.

“Atiku would have won in the 2023 presidential election. Anti-party activities are what led the PDP to where it is today, where people are suffering. PDP would have been in power after the 2023 elections.

“They (some party leaders) made sure that the PDP votes were divided in Lagos and other states. That’s why PDP lost that election,” Otunba Adewale said.

Adewale, who is also a former senatorial candidate of PDP, however, urged the party leadership to focus on curbing anti-party activities among leaders rather than attacking Abubakar’s candidacy ahead of the 2027 polls.

He further urged the party to take a firm stand against those destroying the party through their actions and inactions, even as he said that some PDP leaders should be ashamed of themselves, especially those working for the opposition openly and without looking backward in every election.

“These are activities that slim down our chances and destroyed the party in Lagos State and at the national level in all electoral cycles since 2015.

“If Atiku’s candidacy will destroy the PDP, what do we say of party leaders who openly tell PDP members to vote opposition? Will that build or brighten our chances?” he queried.

“We must address the substance and stop chasing shadow, ” he said.

Speaking further, Otunba Adewale said some leaders were always engaging PDP candidates in serious fights, in every election, maintaining that this anti-party activity remained PDP’s problem which should be addressed and not Atiku’s candidacy.

“We should rather concentrate on those in the party but working for the opposition. This anti-party is our problem not Atiku’s candidacy,” Adewale counseled.

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