The Minister of Aviation, Festus Keyamo, has asserted that a potential joint presidential ticket involving former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and former Anambra State governor Peter Obi would fail to garner support from Christians and voters in the South East.
Keyamo made this claim while speaking on Sunday Politics, a programme on Channels Television, where he revealed what he described as insider information about an alleged political strategy ahead of the 2027 general elections.
“I want to do small expo, but it’s an expo that will not help them either way. Do you know what they are working on is that they want to bring Peter Obi and Atiku together,” Keyamo said.
According to him, such a combination would significantly diminish the Christian support base that contributed to the over six million votes Obi secured in the 2023 elections under the Labour Party.
“Once you make Obi the deputy to Atiku, the Christian demography will pull out of that 6 million votes Obi won in 2023. Don’t forget that the President also has a pastor who is a wife. So that Christian demographic, we will snatch some of them and increase our votes,” he argued.
The minister also predicted that the South East, which largely backed Obi in the last election, would not rally behind a ticket led by Atiku Abubakar, who is from the North.
“That South East demography that supported him, once it’s Atiku, they will pull out. They will not support him,” he added.
Keyamo concluded by suggesting that church leaders would be reluctant to back an aged Muslim presidential candidate, saying: “The pastors cannot come out campaigning for an 80-year-old Muslim president. They will not do that. So they will lose that demography.”
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