The Broom and The Rainbow: Two Platforms, One President

Tunde Rahman argues that the political activity in Abuja surrounding Nyesom Wike's Rainbow Coalition and the Progressive Governors Forum's pushback is not a crisis but a sign that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's political architecture for 2027 is active and working. He explains that Wike, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, has not asked to join the All Progressives Congress or sought an alliance with APC governors, but is instead building a Rainbow Coalition of PDP, APC, and other party members whose sole mandate is to deliver votes for President Tinubu's re-election. In Rivers State, the APC has endorsed this model, possibly because Wike controls both APC and PDP structures in the state.

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