The Feasibility of a Viable Opposition Coalition
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- The article examines whether Nigeria’s opposition parties can form a viable coalition against the ruling APC.
- It says the APC has firsthand experience of building such an alliance, negotiating differences and selecting a common candidate before defeating an incumbent between 2013 and 2015.
Nigeria’s ruling All Progressives Congress knows that opposition parties can come together, settle their differences and defeat an incumbent president because it followed that path itself.
Between 2013 and 2015, the parties that formed the APC negotiated how they would work together and agreed on a process for choosing a common candidate. Their cooperation created the synergy needed to mobilise voters and challenge the sitting president.
That experience now informs the question of whether today’s opposition parties can build a similarly viable coalition. The central challenge is not simply bringing parties into the same arrangement, but overcoming competing interests and agreeing on one candidate.
The article focuses on the feasibility of such an opposition alliance and the lessons contained in the APC’s own rise. Its argument is that the ruling party understands the coalition-building process because it once used it successfully.
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Originally published by Premium Times in English. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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