A member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees, Chief Bode George, has claimed the party would collapse if former Vice President Atiku Abubakar emerges as its 2027 presidential flagbearer.

George stated this on Channels Television when he appeared on the station’s Politics Today programme on Monday.

“If he (Atiku) picks it (PDP’s ticket), that is the end of this party.

“If he picks it by manipulation which was what was done the last time, we will not accept it,” he said.

Atiku, who has been contesting for Nigeria’s president for over three decades, came second in the 2023 presidential election, defeated by Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Ahead of the 2027 election, Atiku has championed an inter-party alliance that birthed a coalition, which was announced on Thursday, March 20, 2025, as a springboard to wrestle power from the Tinubu-led government.