The All Progressives Congress says opposition coalition moves against President Bola Tinubu’s re-election will soon collapse.

“As the countdown to 2027 continues, the question before the opposition is no longer whether to form a coalition, but whether such a coalition can survive its own contradictions. The signs are unmistakable: what looms is not a formidable alternative, but an impending implosion,” said Seye Oladejo, APC spokesman in Lagos, in a statement on Friday. 

“What is being marketed as a coalition is, in reality, a congregation of serial presidential aspirants, each unwilling to subordinate ego to collective purpose.

“From the outset, this assemblage has lacked ideological glue, moral cohesion, or a shared vision for Nigeria beyond a desperate fixation on power.

“Beneath the noise and contrived optimism, however, lies a fragile contraption wobbling under the weight of personal ambitions, mutual distrust, and irreconcilable contradictions,” the statement added.

Mr Oladejo said public ultimatums and preconditions among opposition leaders had exposed deep divisions. He said demands for guaranteed presidential or vice-presidential tickets had replaced consensus-building.

According to him, appeals urging supporters to stop attacking one another showed worsening internal hostility.

“This is a classic case of a house divided against itself, where internal hostility has become so intense that public pleas for restraint are issued even before any meaningful structure is formed.

“A coalition that must beg its own followers for peace has already conceded defeat to its internal chaos,” Mr Oladejo said.

The APC politician noted that the presence of multiple power centres within the same tent, each convinced of its own inevitability, renders the project unsustainable.

“History is unkind to coalitions built on convenience rather than conviction, on arithmetic rather than ideology. Nigeria has seen this movie before, and the ending is always the same: fragmentation, recrimination, and implosion,” he said.

He said the APC remained focused on governance and on consolidating Mr Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda, and that it remained a tested platform with a proven capacity to manage diversity, resolve internal differences through established democratic processes, and present a coherent governance agenda.

(NAN)