Lukman: Coalition Will Avoid Past Mistakes of Atiku, Obi to Defeat Tinubu in 2027 Discloses whoever emerges presidential candidate will get massive support, coalition won’t stand on anybody’s mandate Tinubu planning clampdown on opposition leaders, Abdullahi raises the alarm Coalition dead on arrival, declares ACF spokesman
Chuks Okocha in Abuja and George Okoh in Makurdi
One of the leaders of African Democratic Congress (ADC), Mallam Salihu Lukman, has said the
opposition coalition would avoid mistakes made in the past election by both former Vice President Atiku
Abubakar and former Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi, among others willing to contest the
ticket of the party. Lukman spoke when he appeared on a Channels TV programme. He
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L-R: The US Ambassador, Richard M. Mills Jr. and the Interior Minister, Hon. (Dr.) Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo after a meeting on the recently introduced visa procedures … yesterday
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Boss Mustapha: Buhari Allowed Institutions to Work, Prioritised Structure over Showmanship
Says ex-president’s constant 12m votes birthed his presidency in 2015 Tinubu: my predecessor showed humility, restraint, maturity in exercise of presidential powers Obaigbena: 40 years ago, I was the last journalist to interview Buhari just before IBB’s coup Story on page 9
GARBA SHEHU’S BOOK LAUNCH, ‘ACCORDING TO THE PRESIDENT’...
L-R: Former Minister of Communication, Prof. Ali Pantami; Former Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo; Former Chief of Staff, Amb. Ibrahim Gambari; Author and former SSA to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu; Chairman/Editor-in-Chief of ThisDay/ARISE Media Group, Prince Nduka Obaigbena; Minister of Information, Mr. Mohammed Idris; Former Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon; SGF, Mr. George Akume; and former Vice President, Alhaji PHOTO: SUNDAY AGHAEZE Atiku Abubakar, during the book launch ‘According to the President’ by former SSA on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, held at the Musa Yar’Adua Centre in Abuja, yesterday