The Presidency has challenge the opposition parties, criticizing his style of leadership to test his popularity in the 2027 general election.

President Bola Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Media and Public Communications, Sunday Dare, called out the opposition leaders, including former presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, Peter Obi of the Labour Party, and Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, Nasir El-Rufai, and Rotimi Amaechi.

He asks them to wait until 2027 to see Tinubu emerge victorious again, adding that the activities of the opposition leaders were premature.

Taking to his X page to respond to the criticisms, Dare wrote, “While the President was seeking solutions to Nigeria’s energy problems in Dar es Salaam, some ‘wannabes’ were heating up the polity.

This is 2025, not 2027. Let those who want to test their popularity with Nigerians wait for the next election.”

His statement follows the criticisms of Atiku, El-Rufai, and Amaechi against Tinubu and his All Progressives Congress-led administration.

Atiku accused President Bola Tinubu-led All Progressives Congress (APC), of bribing opposition leaders with N50 million each.

This move, he claimed, was meant to disorganize the opposition leaders.

The former Kaduna State Governor, El-Rufai, had recently mentioned that he no longer recognizes the APC due to a lack of internal democracy. According to him, the APC has not met in the last two years.

“I no longer recognise the APC. No party organ has met in two years—no caucus, no NEC, nothing. You don’t even know if it is a one-man show; it’s a zero-man show,” he said.

Also, Rotimi Amaechi, former Minister of Transportation under former President Muhammadu Buhari, called on Nigerian youths to take over power from President Tinubu in 2027 because the president will not willingly give up.