Why Tinubu only needs little votes from North to win 2027 election –  Fayose

Former Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has predicted that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will clinch a second term in the 2027 general elections, asserting that Tinubu already commands solid control in the southern region and requires only limited support from the North to secure victory.

Speaking during an interview on Channels TV’s Politics Today on Friday, Fayose offered his analysis of Nigeria’s evolving political landscape, forecasting a dismal outing for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which he claimed would finish fourth.

“The man has taken all over the south; he only needs little to turn it in the north. Peter Obi will still have a good show. You can’t deny that. I always tell the truth. Obi will have a better show than the PDP. The PDP will come fourth and the ADC will come third. The APC will come first. Obi will come second. Write it down. You don’t have to be fooling people,” Fayose said.

He also tipped the Action Democratic Congress (ADC) to come third, with Labour Party’s 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi, placing second.

Fayose praised Tinubu’s political acumen, saying:“Tinubu outside the government consummated the APC, took that APC up and defeated the PDP in 2015. Without the opposition in 2023, the same Tinubu defeated everybody. So you think the man does not have a brain even if he does not talk? It’s only if I don’t have what it takes like him, I would have been a strategist.”

The outspoken ex-governor did not hold back in his criticism of the PDP, expressing concern about the party’s current condition.

“On whether I’m trusted or not, I don’t have to be trusted. That’s their problem. You know the situation of our party today. And it’s in my prayer that the PDP does not come fourth in the coming election.”

Fayose added, “You know, when I came here, I said the party was already going into a carcass. And if you recall very well, the majority of people that have defected after my coming here are huge enough and have left the PDP in a carcass. The situation in PDP, pretenders can pretend but you know that the PDP had messed up. Managing the party has become an issue.”