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00:00:41Our preparations for the 2027 presidential election gather pays
00:00:45a fresh disagreement has emerged
00:00:47a within the camps supporting president b's reelection. FCT
00:00:51minister Yasabiki says is rainbow
00:00:54of coalition is focused on mobilizing support for the president, not the
00:00:57APC, but the parties. does insis they will back
00:01:01only APC candidates, so what does this divide mean for
00:01:05the ruling party and the 2027 race? this is standpoint,
00:01:09i am precious,
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00:01:20so the political realignment ahead
00:01:22of the 2027 presidential election is exposing differences among
00:01:26a supporters of president bolatinu at the center
00:01:29of the latest dispute is the FCT minister Yason Wiki's proposed
00:01:33rainbow coalition, and that's the cross-party platform, he
00:01:36in says is designed to mobilize support for President Tinable's
00:01:39reelection, but APC governors under the progressive governors
00:01:43forum have drawn the line between supporting the president and
00:01:47supporting a political arrangement that could affect the fortunes of APC
00:01:51candidates, the forum chaired by immostate governor Hope Zadima
00:01:55says its members will support Tinuble as well as candidates officially
00:01:58sponsored by the APC wik however
00:02:02of maintains that his coalition is separate from
00:02:04of the APC, says he never promised that other parties, including the
00:02:08PDP would not feel candidates in the 2027
00:02:11elections. the disagreement has now
00:02:13of raised questions about party loyalty, campaign structures and how the different
00:02:17political interests back intonable will work together. now
00:02:21standpoint today we examine the issues and what this emerging political
00:02:25divide could mean for the 2027
00:02:27election. Let's bring
00:02:32of in a guest we are joined by honorablego, he's the APC Chief, an APC chieftein, the former member
00:02:35of the House of Representatives, he's currently of member of Lagos Governorship campaign
00:02:39council and he
00:02:46let me get first get to your uh thoughts on
00:02:49how the the minister
00:02:51of the FCT Wiki has described that some of your party
00:02:55governors, he described some
00:02:56of them as lazy, even the term 419 was you.
00:03:00used: well, I don't think I want to dwell on the issue of
00:03:03saying that the APC governors are lazy, because we know they are
00:03:07not lazy, if they are
00:03:10of
00:03:11of lazy, they will not be controlling their various states,
00:03:15of so I think they are not lazy, and uh,
00:03:19I think that could laziness also be, in terms
00:03:22of of the
00:03:23the preparations for the 2027 election, maybe he he
00:03:26feels, well, they're not doing enough at this moment, well the... have not
00:03:30come, so it's difficult to say that the APC governors are not
00:03:34doing enough, but I believe the APC governors will do
00:03:38enough and that they are working hard to make sure that the president wins
00:03:42the area, don't forget we have almost 32
00:03:44in states and that is a big big big
00:03:47advantage for the party, and moving
00:03:51forward, I want to say that I
00:03:55think we should not entertain too much political
00:03:59cakufony. from the disagreement between
00:04:02wiki and ibo state governor,
00:04:06you know uh, there's a convergence,
00:04:10wiki is supported our president,
00:04:12president, and his promise to deliver
00:04:16river state to the president and also
00:04:18deliver FCT to the president, he
00:04:22has done it before, deliver rivers it to the president and
00:04:26FCT during the last local government election which came just about
00:04:30three months ago, he also delivered it to
00:04:32of APC, of so with that kind of anticident, it's difficult for us to say
00:04:36that uh, wiki is just talking or we wish him
00:04:39away, so Wiki is a man
00:04:43of his words, he has promise and he has done
00:04:47it, and also i'm sure that our
00:04:50governors will not be too bother because Wiki wants to
00:04:53of support the president, and our
00:05:00of of governors in APC also supported the president, so he both are supporting the president, it
00:05:04gives us victory, and that is the most important position for us,
00:05:08as for other positions like the state governors
00:05:11and co, we at home because river
00:05:14state uh is being run
00:05:17under APC, the governorship, the rainbow coalition
00:05:21of week is supported an APC
00:05:23candidate, which is the former
00:05:27minority leader in PDP member before, he was the PDP member,
00:05:30yes, but now it's in APC, we can support h with the
00:05:34rainbow coalition that he has formed rivers, it's
00:05:38convenient for him to have a reallation in rivers because
00:05:43"wike is controlling the APC reverse and is controlling the
00:05:47PDP reverse so it could get the together in the
00:05:51coalition, but other states which is not controlling
00:05:55the APC, is
00:05:56the governance that control APC, so as
00:06:00result uh the governors don't need to bother
00:06:04too much, all they need to do is to work hard, while Wiki is also
00:06:07working hard for our presidency, it can as well work
00:06:11hard for. is PDP other kind
00:06:14positions, but I think that it will not affect the fortune
00:06:18of APC, I will get there in just moment, but
00:06:22I want to stay on the point you made about um, there is a convergence and that
00:06:25convergence is convergence of interest, yes, which is to see the president reelected, that
00:06:29is it, and so if there is that convergence, why is it very so difficult
00:06:33to at least even let's say politics about
00:06:36negotiations, so accept that ra coalition and say let's see how we can negotiate
00:06:40further, yeah, you see, like I
00:06:43said, there's no
00:06:46doubt or disagreement on what Wiki wants to
00:06:50do, he has said it from the beginning that he will work for Mr.
00:06:53President, he promised Mr. President he was going to deliver river state and
00:06:57he did in very grand manner, and we members of
00:07:00VPC are grateful to him for
00:07:03that victory give for
00:07:06us river state, now he see holy river state
00:07:10tied under EPC. the
00:07:13candidate of uh APC in
00:07:17river state you know is uh a wike
00:07:21associate, it's a wike associate, like I said
00:07:25former minority leader in the house of rep, it's a wiki
00:07:28associate and we are convinced that wike will
00:07:31deliver river state to PD to APC
00:07:35again, then in next place is
00:07:38FCT, which he also promise and he
00:07:42did. a very grand style in the last local government election
00:07:46that just passed, so if it delivers those two to
00:07:49us on the presidential
00:07:52election, we are we are home and
00:07:55dry, we have 32 other governors
00:07:59who are working with us and those governors
00:08:01i'm very sure they will deliver their respective at
00:08:05least 80% of those governors will deliver their respective
00:08:08states and if that happens with
00:08:20interesting honorable that you just mentioned that 80% the governors will deliver
00:08:24their respective states which means that you do not have faith that all the governors that you
00:08:28have would deliver their respective states just a minute
00:08:32honorable some people have said beyond the opposition one the reasons that
00:08:36your governors might not be able to deliver that state might be weaker because beyond river
00:08:40state
00:08:40it is und understood that he has influenced. some other states he's now as we
00:08:43know now having a coalition with some other
00:08:46you know starts in some states to ensure that PDP candidates emerging those
00:08:50states yes I know that uh we have a bit of sal state equara
00:08:54state but beyond that it whose
00:08:58of other APC governors are
00:09:01consolidating working very hard to ensure that they they
00:09:05deliver their states you know and of
00:09:09course even in in the state in all this
00:09:14seats where
00:09:15you are where you have APC governors complaining more
00:09:19loudly
00:09:22weeks people even if the
00:09:26APC does not accept it weak case rainbow
00:09:29coalition is going to work for president tirubu
00:09:33so we are going to win all those ones now but when he gets to other
00:09:37positions that is where we have
00:09:40a problem maybe the... house of rep and then you come down
00:09:44to governorship and house of assembly,
00:09:48that's where problem could be, but i think that that problem will be in
00:09:52very very few states in states where the governors have not worked hard
00:09:56enough, in new states and zodiba is
00:09:59is very thorough and very hardwing, i cannot
00:10:03see any problem here, you know in kwara
00:10:07where maybe maybe because of
00:10:11disagreement within the part. Maybe somebody
00:10:14APC,
00:10:15I mean supported outside APC, house of
00:10:19senate, that's not the possibility, but
00:10:23in other states largely. "i believe
00:10:27that APC will win
00:10:29massively in other states to give APC
00:10:33majority in the house of rep, in the senate and the various house
00:10:37of assembly, but for the presidency, we
00:10:41are rest assured, and that's what the the challenge is really, because some have said, look, if
00:10:45you do not have any sort of agreement with wik, what you might have is to have perhaps a
00:10:49reelection the president but without national assembly that he can work
00:10:52with, i think that the pr'. we get national assembly
00:10:56that will be able to work with, even if we wiki work very
00:10:59hard, even if wiki work very
00:11:03hard, the national assembly that the president will
00:11:07work with will still be the hands of APC, and i can tell you for
00:11:11free that even in rivers where wick comes
00:11:14from, his house of preferred house of rep
00:11:17candidates are running under
00:11:20APC, wickets house of candidates
00:11:24and senators and running other APC, other Wike
00:11:28is doing is getting his rainbow coalition in
00:11:32revers, everybody put APC and the other parties
00:11:35together to work for their candidates, so if he gives
00:11:39us presidency house of senate that
00:11:43words, it does it in abuja, it's left for the
00:11:47other governors of APC to work very hard in the area
00:11:50to deliver, I would be surprised if they
00:11:54are... relying a wiki to deliver the
00:11:57entire
00:11:59uh uh entire states if the governors are relying on wiki to deliver the
00:12:03various things to them and i will be very
00:12:06surprised i believe that the our governors are working
00:12:10extremely hard to deliver they may lose one or two dc to
00:12:14PDP but we case carries are
00:12:17PDP but i believe that wickets
00:12:19candidates are not strong enough
00:12:23under his brother. to win the lot
00:12:27the states, don't forget that,
00:12:30wik
00:12:31has weakened PDP,
00:12:34you know, after I drove away article
00:12:38because the fear they had before, I'm not sure, I'm not
00:12:42sure accept that he was driving away, probably that he left the party,
00:12:45well, where did he leave the party, where did he
00:12:49leave the party, don't forget that all those who form the party with him had
00:12:53come under PDP. with the aim of supporting
00:12:57him, but he and all
00:13:00them, basically 99% them
00:13:03left, apart from
00:13:06APC, the remaining people were
00:13:10mainly PDP people, including the former
00:13:14senate president and
00:13:17co, all we PDP members, they were there, but they saw that they cannot
00:13:21use the PDP platform, buse wiki was standing there like...
00:13:26occupied all the spaces of PDP, so the
00:13:30party was serious trouble and they had
00:13:33to go to court on this lot of instances,
00:13:37you know, so the people left,
00:13:40Peter be2k left, so what I'm
00:13:43saying is that the
00:13:47PDP that wick control is
00:13:50seriously weakened, yes it may have one or two
00:13:54brights. sports, but on overall it does not have
00:13:58the capacity to be on
00:14:01offensive for the entire uh entire
00:14:05country, what if he's not looking to be on the offensive for for the entire country, you can't when you
00:14:09say he's he's wiking, um, he's doing a real coalition, which means that he's looking to
00:14:13partner uh with enter into an agreement with
00:14:16other, perhaps maybe other political parties in other states and whoever,
00:14:20mean you already said that he controls both APC and the PDP in reversed, what makes you
00:14:24think is not? to control two two or more parties within other states, well
00:14:28he may be if he's looking to control
00:14:31uh APC in other states,
00:14:35now other states are where if somebody is coming to you with a fight and
00:14:39you are giving notice then you prepare others is are aware
00:14:43so what this means is that other PDP
00:14:46governors have to be prepared, they have to work
00:14:49hard, work extremely hard to make sure that
00:14:52wikbook condition does not disturb there. but on the
00:14:55presidency, the other governors have to accept wiki's rainbow
00:14:59coalition, even if it's more vote that wiki will contribute
00:15:03in the other states, yes it's good for us, it's good
00:15:07for us, so I will come to that point because we should not create
00:15:11a about the governor is accepting a couple of questions
00:15:15want to ask from that, but we take a break now and when we return continue our conversation
00:15:19with honorable on the rainbow coalition the
00:15:22FCT minister and then the... It is raising within the ABC
00:15:26st with us
00:15:27everyone.
00:15:37Right, thanks for staying with us everyone, we've been speaking with honorable, an APC
00:15:41Chief and the former member the House of Representatives, he's also
00:15:45currently member the legal state governorship campaign council and we're talking
00:15:48about the latest policy crisis between the some APC
00:15:52governors and of maybe just generally APC governors and the FCT
00:15:56minister on the rainbow coalition for the reelection the president and
00:16:00also at the lower uh at the state levels as well, thank you so much for staying with
00:16:04us honorable, thank you, so I really want to ask because President is the one who is
00:16:08really, I want to say in the eye the storm because it looks, it looks like a storm, but maybe
00:16:12a tikup, maybe not so much of a storm, but I wanted to ask what this means for
00:16:16him, considering you, what happened in river state where an
00:16:19APC and the comment governor who who defected to the APC didn't didn't get back
00:16:23on the ballot, and people are saying look, how the
00:16:26pres president decides to handle this, will send um message, a
00:16:30strong message to members the APC, and that could whether mean
00:16:34whether he the kind of support he would get or not. well,
00:16:38I think the president don't really need to disturb his mind
00:16:42to much
00:16:42of this, if if I was
00:16:46advisor to Mr. President, I would say, Mr. President, don't bother
00:16:50yourself too much about what is happening
00:16:52now, uh, it's a political
00:16:55stop, but not a big word, it's a time that comes
00:16:59and blows away, and the fact is that the man at
00:17:03the center of it wiki, we have his best path.
00:17:09he is rosolut, he has resolved to give his vote to us
00:17:13in the most important area where it matters where he has
00:17:17the strongest political threat, yes agreed, wik has
00:17:21support across a lot of states in the federation, but they are just
00:17:24pockets of support, they are not enough
00:17:28enough to create a political set for Mr.
00:17:31President, so we have in
00:17:34rivers where his political machine. are
00:17:38all almost all in PDP, shindas,
00:17:42honorable shidas who is the governor candidate of APC, river
00:17:46state is a 100% wiki
00:17:49man and wiki rather
00:17:52than
00:17:53run him under PDP has brought him to to run under
00:17:56APC and I believe he's going to win the election for
00:17:59APC, it's also a very principal
00:18:03man in um FCT which...
00:18:07our president lost wowfully during the
00:18:112023 election, wiki has won
00:18:15it for us in the last local government
00:18:17election, in the gr side won all the local
00:18:21government, only one local government was won by
00:18:24PDP and that PDP winning person won the
00:18:28PDP is loyal to
00:18:32APC and loyal to delivery from his
00:18:35president. those are two areas would have
00:18:38had would have had
00:18:41problem, but the are family under our control,
00:18:45all other govern need to do, all other governor needs to do is to
00:18:49work hard in their state, because on the presidency is
00:18:53in our heart, work on hard in the state for like house of
00:18:57assembly and the governorship, and i'm sure we
00:19:01case efeless in all other states
00:19:05round the federation is not struggling. to create an upset
00:19:08for APC, so we should not make too much fuse about
00:19:12it, don't forget that wieke is a
00:19:16man of very strong opinion and it's a man who does not
00:19:19hide his intentions, he tells you what we want to do and he
00:19:23does it, he told article that was going to fight article
00:19:27until it would drive away from PDP and he did it, it
00:19:31doesn't hide any battle wants to go into, it doesn't, it doesn't run away, it
00:19:35doesn't hide it, tells you straight away. but i think
00:19:38that uh the APC is family
00:19:41control and at this moment we don't need to be
00:19:44worried about wik coalition because where
00:19:48it matters most rivers and r
00:19:51city it is in our favor well if you
00:19:55say it's already in your favor it means that as you analyze those the
00:19:59fct and river it sounds like the APC is already set up some sort of
00:20:02coalition remember coalition without without even calling it that if if
00:20:06he has. drop show if if he has a PDP candidate that that
00:20:10is um that has his allegiance to the APC in the
00:20:13FCT that already sounds like a Roma coalition even without it be formalized but I
00:20:17wanted to ask you about the president you saying you would advise him
00:20:21not to say thing but there are not to bother about it there are those who will say
00:20:25he needs to reassure maybe not the governors maybe just party members we understand that the
00:20:29aggrevance voice is now being raised even in the north about where the president's loyalty
00:20:33lies who is likely to support in this matter you don't think that being the
00:20:37leader the party in at the federal level that he should say
00:20:41to at least i shore people that his support lies with the
00:20:45party and not with a single individual, of course everybody
00:20:48knows that... Mr. President support is with
00:20:51APC and everybody knows that president is working very
00:20:55hard for APC to win everywhere, but most
00:20:58importantly on the ballot where Mr. President day will
00:21:02be on that ballot, of course
00:21:06president is working very hard on it, and Wike is not going to
00:21:10cause any disturbance or a problem for us on that
00:21:13ballot and for the areas he has
00:21:17promised to to deliver, but like I said, pk
00:21:21has pocket of support every almost around the
00:21:23federation here and there, but those
00:21:27supports are not big enough to create a problem for
00:21:30Mr. President, so I think all Mr. President need to do work with
00:21:34your governors to win as they have
00:21:38been working, work with Wiki to win the areas,
00:21:42you
00:21:42know Wiki has comparative advantage, but in
00:21:46reality if we were to look at this more honestly, yes, look like
00:21:50a bottle of different hopes of influence who basically
00:21:54are looking for to take the credit for um the success you
00:21:58know in 2027 election and be able to use that as some
00:22:02leverage to negotiate with the president for any form of appointment
00:22:06well you can't run away from that in politics you cannot run
00:22:09away from it and mr president in politics is an
00:22:13expert he understands that if for instance wike promise to
00:22:17give us reversity and and he does it in the grass
00:22:21tie, of course, Mr. President, we applaud
00:22:24him, we clap for him, and we, the APC members
00:22:28will be happy that he gave it to us, because those
00:22:32two says are very difficult for us to win,
00:22:36and if Wik gives that to us, we are happy with him,
00:22:40if other governors of course give their state to
00:22:43us, work hard and give their state to
00:22:47us, if they don't want...
00:22:50wicked statement to be true where wicky said some the governors
00:22:54are lazy, if they want to prove wick wrong, we
00:22:58have enough time, if they work hard, do complete
00:23:02reconciliation, for exa,
00:23:05the thesarray, they don't have complete
00:23:08reconciliation, and it's in the governor hand, if the
00:23:11governor can do complete reconciliation, the candid can do
00:23:15complete reconciliation and then they win the area, of
00:23:19course because "he's a second term governor, I'm sure that one the reasons he would also
00:23:23be opposed to this coalition is look, I probably also looking to get an
00:23:26appointment, I want to ensure that he wins his state for the president, but I
00:23:30I am, I am told I have very few seconds left, I want to ask you about this,
00:23:34um, you have talked about how resolute and dougged wiki is having delivered
00:23:38rivers to to the president in
00:23:412023, right now with the current situation of things, is
00:23:45it in the APC's interest to go this journey with Wiki or without him, oh
00:23:49yes you must go." with him is part of us, he has benefited from
00:23:53us, the president gave him very juicy appointment, minister
00:23:57of f city, he has benefited, that is part the influence
00:24:01is using to win rivers more for us and to win
00:24:04fc for us, so we must go with him in this journey, we must not
00:24:08divorce him politically, he's married to us politically
00:24:12until mr president finishes his election
00:24:152027, we are dec,
00:24:17you disagree with those who say he he might become a liability. the president, no, no, no,
00:24:21I don't think so, no, no, on the scale, a scale
00:24:25of 100, I can
00:24:27say he will,
00:24:31he will, he will be with us, if he's going to be a liability a few, will not be
00:24:35more than 10%, but the benefits of having wiki
00:24:39with us is enormous and we must not make the mistake of
00:24:43listening to people are talking there, say oh, let wike go, we can't
00:24:47let him go, he
00:24:48has benefited from this government. has promised and is working with us, if you
00:24:52have some misunderstanding with the governors, of course that will be ironed out,
00:24:56there's there is a time, and for us to iron it out and
00:25:00for the governor to understand what wickets purpose is
00:25:03and what they need to do to retain their
00:25:07area, mean wick
00:25:08is a single individual, you know
00:25:10he cannot uh pr cross everywhere and give us honorable we have to
00:25:14leave it there, thank you so much for your time, we're following developments within your party, just few months to the
00:25:18election, abc chief chin Former member the House of Raps, I'm
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00:30:41in some part of Africa, a large number of people living with
00:30:45albinism face extreme
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