Tinubu Already Defeated Ahead of 2027 Election – Adebayo

The 2023 presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Adewole Adebayo, has declared that President Bola Tinubu has already lost the 2027 presidential election.

Adebayo made the assertion during an interview on Symfoni TV aired on Wednesday, while speaking on the political outlook ahead of the next general election.

According to him, Nigeria requires a new set of leaders to address the country’s challenges and provide effective governance.

“President Tinubu is already defeated. You know what they said about Boko Haram last time being technically defeated? President Tinubu has been demographically, economically, politically defeated,” he said.

The SDP chieftain alleged that the President was banking on a fractured opposition and possible legal disputes among rival political parties ahead of the election.

“But what he’s hoping on is a truncated transition programme where one party will have two candidates and will be in court. So, they will be distracting you,” Adebayo stated.

He further claimed that the President’s popularity had declined across the country’s geopolitical zones.

“President Tinubu is not popular in the South, he doesn’t understand what’s going on in the North. He’s a disappointment in the West. He’s an anathema in the East and the center cannot hold for him,” he said.

Adebayo also accused the administration of relying on voter disillusionment and economic hardship to secure political advantage ahead of the 2027 polls.

“So, what he is hoping on is that the Nigerian people be so disillusioned, so annoyed, so hopeless that they won’t bother to come out because he will now be able to pass together his ‘Renewed Hopelessness’ ambassadors and then get them to distribute rice to the impoverished Nigerians,” he added.

The former presidential candidate maintained that Nigeria’s future depends on the emergence of new leadership capable of addressing the nation’s economic and political challenges.