As the 2027 general elections inch ever closer, it is imperative that opposition forces, fractured and disoriented in 2023, engage in a sober and honest introspection.
This introspection must be rooted not in emotion or ego, but in empirical data, historical precedent, and the logic of electoral pragmatism.
In the 2019 presidential election, fomer VP Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP secured 11,262,978 votes, while President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress APC polled 15,191,847.
A regional disaggregation tells its own story: However, the dynamics shifted considerably in 2023, with the emergence of Peter Obi under the Labour Party-a development that fundamentally altered the nations electoral landscape.