The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has rebuffed the threats of an alliance between former presidential candidates, Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi.

This was disclosed by the National Publicity Director of APC, Bala Ibrahim, in an exclusive interview with The PUNCH on Tuesday, December 10.

His reaction comes from rumors of an alliance between the presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party and the Labour Party.

Paul Ibe, the spokesperson to Atiku Abubakar in an interview on Channels Television said his principal and Peter Obi have learned their lesson in the last election and would unite to boot out the “incompetent and clueless” administration of the APC.

According to him, the combined votes of the two leaders, which would have amounted to 12 million, should have been enough to stop the President and prevent the hardship he has meted out to Nigerians.

But Bala Ibrahim who described Atiku and Obi as strange bedfellows coming to with he sole aim of stopping Tinubu's second term in 2027.

The APC spokesman also said no potential from the opposition, who he said are enmeshed in crisis, can seriously pose any serious threat to the ruling party.

He said, “It is a dream gone wrong. All over the world, you don’t add up the total votes in an election and hope to use it to topple the votes of the winner. No! You don’t do that. A smart winner always capitalises on that to create a crack within the opposition. This is because each candidate is aspiring to win.