- JUST IN: ‘Once You Make Obi Deputy To Atiku, The Christian Demography Will Pull Out Of The 6M Votes’ – Keyamo
Aviation Minister Festus Keyamo has predicted that former Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi will lose crucial Christian support if he agrees to serve as running mate to Alhaji Atiku Abubakar in the 2027 elections.
Thank you for reading this post, don’t forget to subscribe!Speaking in an interview with Channels TV, Festus Keyamo argued that such a political arrangement would alienate key voting demographics that supported Obi in 2023. “Once you make Obi deputy to Atiku, the Christian demography will pull out of the 6M votes he had in 2023. Even if they will not go to Tinubu, we are good if they remain apolitical. But don’t forget that the president also has a pastor who is his wife. And so, that Christian demography will smash some of them and increase our votes,” he stated.
The minister also predicted that southeastern voters would abandon their support for such a ticket. “Don’t forget too that that southeast demography that supported him – once it’s Atiku, they will pull out. They will not support him. They will not. The pastors cannot come out campaigning for an 80-year-old Muslim president. They will not do that. So he will lose that demography,” Keyamo explained.
He noted constitutional limitations that would prevent a reverse arrangement. “If it is the other way around, you can’t put Atiku as the vice, and he cannot even be the vice to start with, because he has done two terms as vice president. So he cannot go as vice president again,” he said.
The Aviation Minister referenced President Tinubu’s characterization of opposition groups, stating this explains why the president called them a “coalition of confusion.”
Keyamo, describing himself as a political analyst with extensive experience as chief spokesperson to two presidents, claimed insider knowledge of electoral strategies and vote-getting mechanisms.
According to him, multiple factions exist within the ADC, making the coalition weaker than public perception suggests.
