As the 2027 election approaches, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, the 2023 Governorship candidate of the Labour Party in Lagos State, has said that opposition politicians are working to unseat President Bola Tinubu.
Ahead of the 2023 election, two opposition figures, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi, who had formed a team in the 2019 presidential election, parted ways. Atiku contested on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP, while the Labour Party presented Obi as its flagbearer.
The arrangement turned out in favour of the ruling party candidate, Bola Tinubu, who secured 8,794,726 votes to emerge victorious, while Atiku and Obi shared 6,984,520 and 6,101,533 votes respectively.
Critics of the ruling All Progressives Congress believe that if Atiku and Obi had teamed up like they did in 2019, they would have defeated Tinubu and his party.