Tinubu’s Re-election: APC blocs rise against Wike’s Rainbow Coalition
Example can be seen in the case of Oyo State in the 2023 election where in an attempt to support the presidential bid of candidate Tinubu of the APC, the PDP which was the ruling party at the state level lost the National Assembly seats.
By Clifford Ndujihe, Demola Akinyemi, Juilet Umeh, Dan Abia & Emma Una Powerful blocs in the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, are up in gloves against the Rainbow Coalition midwifed by Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja, Minister, Nyesom Wike, saying it would not only hurt the party’s candidates in the 2027 polls but also the re-election of President Bola Tinubu.
Gombe: Pantami’s calculated realignment In Gombe State, former Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, has moved to the PDP with the backing of the Rainbow Coalition, a realignment that implies he would support President Tinubu’s re-election bid while simultaneously working against the APC governorship candidate in the state, underscoring the multi-layered, sometimes contradictory nature of the coalition’s state-level arrangements.
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