A chieftain of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Solomon Dalung, has claimed that party supporters received a phone call “from the grave” of late former President Muhammadu Buhari, urging them to vote for Atiku Abubakar in the 2027 presidential election.
Dalung, a former Minister of Youth and Sports, made the claim on Channels Television while speaking on the ADC candidate’s chances.
Atiku is expected to face incumbent President Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Peter Obi of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), and other candidates in the poll.
According to Dalung, the former vice-president has a national political structure and has inherited the support bases of former presidents Umaru Musa Yar’Adua and Buhari.
Buhari polled about 12.2 million votes in 2011 on the platform of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), then 15.4 million in 2015 and 15.2 million in 2019.
Dalung said last month’s visit by Buhari’s widow, Aisha, to Atiku’s residence in Abuja signalled a transfer of the late president’s political base to the ADC candidate.
“The message she took for any politician to know is that the 12 million votes have been successfully transferred. We have had a phone call from the grave of Buhari that we should vote Atiku,” he said.
He expressed confidence that Atiku would defeat Tinubu, regardless of what he described as possible attempts to frustrate the ADC’s participation in the election.
“I am confident that as events are unfolding, Tinubu, even if he would take over the ADC secretariat and stop ADC from campaigning, he cannot defeat Atiku Abubakar in 2027,” he said.
The former minister also argued that Atiku’s support base carries more weight than the crowds politicians draw at rallies, which he described as “rented crowds.”
Dalung served under Buhari from November 2015 to May 2019.
On Wednesday, however, he criticised the ADC leadership, accusing the party’s National Secretary, Rauf Aregbesola, of unilaterally appointing caretaker committees across the states. He said the move undermined a case pending before the Supreme Court and questioned the party’s commitment to winning the 2027 general election.
Buhari, who ruled Nigeria as military head of state from 1983 to 1985 and as civilian president from 2015 to 2023, died at a London clinic on July 13, 2025.
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