2027: I don’t see Amaechi getting ADC presidential ticket

The Director of News and Politics Editor of Arise Television, Sumner Sambo, has said that he does not see the former Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, getting the presidential ticket of the opposition coalition floated under the African Democratic Congress, ADC, in the 2027 elections.

Sambo made this statement on Monday on ‘The Morning Show’ a programme on Arise Television.

He described Amaechi’s recent comments as political distraction, saying that the ADC is out to confuse the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.

According to him, the political credentials of President Bola Tinubu as a master strategist within Nigeria’s politics will be tested in 2027.

“So in my own thinking, I think they’ve started playing a game against Tinubu, a chess game that Tinubu himself may be confused if he’s not careful, because what I see here are people who have devised several tendencies to obfuscate the realities that Tinubu and his team may actually be planning towards at the moment.

“So I think that Rotimi Amaechi is being sent by certain people within the ADC to distract him. If you look at the strategies ongoing right now, you will see that it is not really clear exactly who may likely get the ADC ticket, not because you cannot make the calculations, but because, I think that these ADC leaders have all agreed to bring in place certain techniques that they will use to confuse the APC election planning committee ahead of the 2027, elections.

“So here’s Amaechi, whose highest political capacity has been the Director General of the Buhari/Osinbajo campaign in 2014 and 2019 coming to say that he would defeat Tinubu.

“It’s not going to be easy. It’s not really, really going to be easy, because Tinubu himself has a whole chunk of people who believe in his capacity in the APC, and you will understand that if it comes to the issues of obtaining ticket, Tinubu has a strategy that is very difficult to defeat,” he said.

2027: I don’t see Amaechi getting ADC presidential ticket – Sambo