Demola Olarewaju, Special Assistant on Digital Media Strategy to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, has issued a strong warning to allies of former President Muhammadu Buhari, cautioning them against supporting President Bola Tinubu’s potential 2027 re-election bid.
Olarewaju, in a series of posts on X, said members of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) within the All Progressives Congress (APC) risk making the “biggest mistake of their lives” by trusting Tinubu.
Olarewaju, whose principal was the 2023 presidential candidate for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, said Buhari’s boys in the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC bloc of the All Progressives Congress, APC, are making a grave mistake by trusting Tinubu in 2027.
He warned that Tinubu would use and dump them, just as he did with the former governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai.
Posting on X, he wrote: “The biggest mistake Buhari Boys in the CPC bloc would make ahead of 2027 is to trust Tinubu. Anybody, in fact, shouldn’t make that mistake, including old ACN allies.
“If he gets what he wants, he’ll dump them like El-Rufai and consolidate power more than anyone ever before him.”
Olarewaju also alleged a plot to replace the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Mahmood Yakubu, with someone from the Southwest.
“Lagos Boys want an INEC Chairman from the SW that they can control easily and directly for Tinubu while also being in a position to use him to manipulate state gubernatorial elections and sell it to the highest bidder for themselves – they just want to cash out at this point.
“The agenda for the next INEC Chairman is for one person to control him on behalf of Tinubu, but also still use him to influence and sell state gubernatorial elections.
“Those two men both want to be President after Tinubu, on the idea that the SS still has 4 years to go from GEJ,” he added.