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2027: Opposition coalition faces single candidate dilemma
As the general election approaches, Nigeria’s anti-incumbent bloc faces an agonising choice between personal ambition, regional balancing, and collective political survival. On Tuesday, opposition coalition attempted another comeback, but its path to 2027 remains highly volatile and uncertain. Driven by an urgent desire to challenge the All Progressives Congress’s (APC) hold on power, leading political figures have repeatedly tried, and failed, to form a single, formidable electoral bloc capable of staging a winning campaign. The cycle is exhausting for political observers and citizens alike: brief, carefully orchestrated displays of public solidarity quickly yield to intense internal infighting. Caught in a delicate balance between collective political survival and unyielding individual ambition, every fresh attempt to bridge the divide seems to only deepen the ensuing crisis of confidence among the political class and the electorate.
6 September 2026
