{"id":22606,"date":"2025-03-10T15:45:53","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T15:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=22606"},"modified":"2025-03-10T15:45:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T15:45:53","slug":"2027-aregbesola-fayemi-others-in-talks-to-join-sdp-as-atiku-obi-factions-consider-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=22606","title":{"rendered":"2027: Aregbesola, Fayemi, Others in Talks to Join SDP as Atiku, Obi Factions Consider Alliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Fresh reports indicate that former Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola, and former Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi, are in discussions to defect to the Social Democratic Party (SDP) ahead of the 2027 general elections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Sources also reveal that former Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, ex-Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Adamu, and several former ministers from President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s administration\u2014alongside some disgruntled members of the All Progressives Congress (APC)\u2014are considering a move to the SDP.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">This development comes amid intensified talks of a major opposition coalition aimed at challenging President Bola Tinubu and the APC in 2027. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Insiders suggest that the coalition will likely include Atiku Abubakar\u2019s faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Peter Obi\u2019s faction of the Labour Party (LP), and former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, who recently joined the SDP.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">The opposition groups are reportedly exploring the possibility of uniting under an already registered political platform. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">However, if consensus on a common platform proves difficult, they may collectively align with the SDP as an alternative.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Confirming the ongoing discussions, former PDP National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, stated that merger talks among opposition politicians have been progressing well. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Speaking on AIT\u2019s <\/span><span class=\"s3\">Focus<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> program, he assured that opposition leaders would soon unveil a strategy capable of restoring hope to Nigerians.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Ologbondiyan further asserted that with the current level of political realignment, defeating the ruling APC in 2027 would be a much easier task.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh reports indicate that former Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola, and former Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi, are in discussions to defect to the Social Democratic Party (SDP) ahead of the 2027 general elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9482,1187,15,125,10121,9366,1079],"class_list":["post-22606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-9482","tag-alliance","tag-aregbesola","tag-atiku","tag-fayemi","tag-obi","tag-sdp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22606"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22608,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22606\/revisions\/22608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}