2027: Atiku should step down for younger candidate – Umeh

Politics 2027: Atiku should step down for younger candidate – Umeh Published on April 21, 2026 By Matthew Atungwu googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1500386953281-8'); }); Anambra Central Senator, Victor Umeh, has said that he expects former Vice President Atiku Abubakar to step down for younger presidential candidate in the African Democratic Congress, ADC, ahead of the 2027 general elections. Umeh made this call on Monday while fielding questions in an interview on Arise Television’s ‘Prime Time’. According to him, Atiku is a respected figure in Nigerian politics, who has been running for presidency since 2003, stressing that it was time he prop younger politicians and become a father. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1524595905268-5'); }); “I expected Atiku to step down for younger candidate. Those people he wants to step down are coming with ideas that will promote the change Nigerians are looking for. “To challenge a president who is not willing to leave, you must be offering Nigerians something different. “I listened and watched the interview with His Excellency, former Vice President Atiku, and he said this will be the last time he will run for the presidential election in Nigeria. “I was thinking that it should be getting to a point where we’re thinking about leaving the stage for younger people to contest, but he says he’s contesting. “So it means that everything everybody has said in the past months did not resonate with him, and if he holds onto that ground, that he cannot build the younger ones to succeed him and make him a father, it means that nobody is ready to concede an inch at all. “So if they go all out to wrestle, it may get to the point that some people would have bloody nose in the end, and the thing that will suffer will be the party,” the lawmaker said. Don't Miss No Abia APC candidate will emerge through imposition – Chairman, Chukwu You may like 2027: APC releases timetable for primaries, prices for forms 2027: Don’t purchase APC nomination forms outside governor’s directive – Emegha Insecurity may disrupt 2027 elections in Benue — Lawmaker warns 2027: We’re not in talks with PRP, any other party – ADC 2027: Namadi forms mobilisation committees to reach aggrieved members 2027: There’ll be surprises, implosion in APC – Senator Yusuf

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