Festus Keyamo Claims 2027 Election Will Be a Coronation for Tinubu
The Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, expressed strong confidence that President Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) will secure a second term in the 2027 presidential election.
Speaking on the Politics Today programme on Channels Television, Keyamo stated that Nigerians will vote overwhelmingly for Tinubu and the APC, dismissing any serious challenge from the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) presidential candidate Peter Obi and the African Democratic Congress (ADC) counterpart Atiku Abubakar.
He pointed to the APC’s success in the off‑season governorship elections of 2026 as evidence of the party’s enduring strength, predicting a repeat performance in the 2027 general elections.
“I’m looking around between you and me, where would Peter Obi’s votes come from? I can’t see,” Keyamo said. “I want to make a profound statement, not out of arrogance, not out of overconfidence, but out of pure demographic calculation. The 2027 elections is a coronation, not an election.”
In related news, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar urged President Tinubu to concentrate on addressing what he described as the failures of his administration rather than engaging in political rhetoric ahead of the 2027 polls.
Atiku, reacting to Tinubu’s declaration that he would “wrestle his opponents to the finish,” labelled the remark “the lamentation of a drowning man” and accused the President of trying to divert attention from an “abysmal record in office.” He noted that the statement came in response to an appeal by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria for credible, transparent, and peaceful elections.
