2027: Atiku launches 20m-vote drive, inaugurates ADC campaign coordinators

By Luminous Jannamike
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on Saturday inaugurated state coordinators of the RiseUpNaija Movement, RUN, launching an ambitious drive to mobilise 20 million votes for his African Democratic Congress, ADC, presidential candidacy ahead of the 2027 general election.
The launch marked one of the clearest signs yet that Atiku’s campaign is shifting from coalition-building to grassroots mobilisation, with the movement unveiling an aggressive strategy to build structures from the national level down to every polling unit across the country.
The RiseUpNaija Movement comprises young men and women drawn from the All Progressives Congress, APC, Peoples Democratic...