July 04, 2025
By Ayinde Adeleke
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Segun Showunmi, has expressed skepticism about the newly formed coalition with the African Democratic Congress (ADC), led by former Senate President David Mark and ex-Osun Governor Rauf Aregbesola.
According to Showunmi, the coalition is driven by inordinate ambition and lacks the capacity to unseat President Bola Tinubu in 2027.
“Can’t you see the kind of people calling themselves coalition now? People who at every election season, it must be about them,” Showunmi said.
He questioned the coalition’s potential for success, asking, “Who will follow these people? In any case, where is the evidence of the development that they have done in all the places that they had been given responsibilities?”
Showunmi also emphasized that Nigeria’s politics operates on a pendulum system, where power shifts between regions.
“We run this country on a pendulum, when power goes to the north and stays eight years, it comes back to the south and stay eight years as well,” he explained.
He added, “You can not be using your inordinate ambition to disturb the country up and down. God will not give you what he will not give you and man will not give you what God has not given you.”
Showunmi concluded that the coalition’s efforts would be in vain, saying, “Rather than those forming coalition to stay in their respective parties and fix whatever the challenges may be, they have decided to embark on a merry-go-round that will fetch them nothing in 2027 elections.”
