Member representing Yagba federal constituency of Kogi state in the House of Representatives, Leke Abejide, says the inability of opposition coalition to win a single seat in the August 16 by-elections was the beginning of the end of the movement.
Speaking on Channels Television’s The Morning Brief on Friday, Abejide, a member of African Democratic Congress (ADC), predicted that the opposition coalition will collapse in September.
He said a former vice president, Atiku Abubakar, and a former governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, were not card-carrying members of the ADC.
“You can see that the coalition collapsed last Saturday all over the country, they could not even win one seat. That was the beginning of the end. By early next month, the coalition will collapse completely, because you cannot come to somebody’s house, hijack his house, and you think that the person, no matter how stupid he is, will be looking at you.
“I will let them know that I am the landlord. I didn’t establish the party, but I am the one who made the party remain where it is today.
“I have never decamped to a big party; I have used it to contest all my elections and brought people, apart from myself, to the National Assembly and the state assembly,” he said.
The lawmaker also said that none of the coalition leaders knew that the party existed before they agreed to adopt it as a platform.
Abejide also said that though a former president of the senate, David Mark, and a former Osun State governor, Rauf Aregbesola, were formally members of the ADC, they had no leadership positions in the party.
The coalition had in July, 2025, adopted the ADC as it political platform to contest the 2027 general elections.
