President Bola Tinubu’s Senior Special Assistant on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, has reacted to reports alleging that former President Olusegun Obasanjo is set to back members of the opposition coalition and declare support for the African Democratic Congress (ADC).
TheNewsGuru reports that the post via 𝕏 reads, “BREAKING: Obasanjo allegedly set to declare public support for ADC, says Nigeria needs a new force to end failure.”
Reacting to the post, Onanuga via the comment of the post stated that the report is bad news for the ‘tottering coalition’, stating that the opposition political figures will inevitably fail.
According to him, Obasanjo had supported opposition parties in both the 2019 and 2023 general elections, but they all lost.
He wrote, “This is bad news for the tottering coalition. Obasanjo endorsed opposition parties in 2019 and 2023. They all failed.”
It would be recalled that former President Olusegun Obasanjo in May 2018, made a significant impact when his Coalition for Nigeria Movement (CNM) adopted the African Democratic Congress (ADC) as a platform to challenge the administration of then-President Muhammadu Buhari ahead of the 2019 general elections.
Obasanjo, former Osun State governor and CNM co-convener, Olagunsoye Oyinlola, and several other political stakeholders had attended the announcement, made during a press conference on May 10, 2018. several other political stakeholders.