The PDP, Labour Party, and NNPP are currently struggling with internal crises, which have been further complicated by defections to the APC, leaving their parties in disarray.
Some politicians have suggested that these crises are being orchestrated to weaken the opposition ahead of the 2027 elections.
On March 11, the immediate past governor of Kaduna State, Malam Nasir El-Rufai, alleged that the crises facing opposition parties were being sponsored by “the government of the day.”
El-Rufai claimed that the litigation, divisions, and factionalization within opposition parties had all been deliberately created by the ruling party to destabilize them.
The PDP, the largest opposition party in the country, has been embroiled in controversies since the 2023 elections. According to *Sunday PUNCH*, the crisis, largely between the factions led by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has significantly weakened the party.
Wike, who worked against the PDP in the 2023 presidential election, has since declared his support for Tinubu’s 2027 bid.
Delta State Governor Oborevwori, his predecessor Okowa, and several key members of the PDP also defected to the APC last Wednesday.
In a similar vein, a member of the House of Representatives, Oluwole Oke, resigned from the PDP and joined the APC on the same day.
Oke’s defection increased the number of opposition members in the National Assembly who had switched to the APC to 17 since the inauguration of the 10th Assembly.
On Saturday, members of the Rivers State caucus in the National Assembly declared their support for Tinubu’s second term.
Commenting on the defections, a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, suggested that the defectors, especially the governors, were concerned that Tinubu might take action against their elections.
He said, “All of them are scared of Tinubu. They are afraid of what he’ll do to them, especially when he has the judiciary in his pocket. But we in the coalition do not care about that.
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