Activist Aisha Yesufu has called on opposition politicians to form a coalition behind the Nigerian Democratic Congress (NDC) presidential candidate, Peter Obi.

She said this despite Obi dumping the coalition formed by the opposition political parties under the umbrella of the African Democratic Congress (ADC).

Her call was put across to the Labour Party, which fielded Obi as its presidential candidate in 2023, as well as the Peoples Democratic Party and others.

"I am not here to tell you your party failed. I am here to tell you the arithmetic. Tinubu was declared winner 2023 with 36 percent of the vote. The opposition together took the rest. The math has never been the problem. The math has always favoured us. The problem is that we ran three campaigns where we needed to run one — and the man who was said to came first in that split is the
man currently mortgaging your children's future. 2027 will not be won by the party with the loudest supporters. It will be won by the side
that learns to assemble itself," she said in a statement.

According to Yesufu, Obi is not the candidate of one camp, but the candidate with the strongest record on the ballot, the broadest appeal across the regions, and the only campaign in 2023 that took Lagos from the man who claims to own it.

"Unifying under him is not surrender. It is strategy. And unifying does not mean dissolving your party, your platform, or your principles. Your senator can still be your senator. Your governor can still be your governor. What we are asking is one
shared answer at the top of the ballot — and a shared commitment to govern together when we
win.

"If you are a party operative, an organiser, a fundraiser, a strategist sitting inside one of the opposition parties — we have a coordination channel for you. Not to replace what you are doing. To connect it. The other side is unified. They are unified by stolen public money, but they are unified. We have to be unified by something stronger," she said.