2027: 35-Year-Old DLA Candidate Moses Adebisi Declares He Will Become Nigeria’s Youngest President

Moses Adebisi, the presidential candidate of the Democratic Leadership Alliance, DLA, has declared that he will become Nigeria’s youngest president if he wins the 2027 presidential election.

Adebisi, who said he is 35 and currently a PhD candidate at Harvard University in the United States, made the claim during an interview with Arise TV on Thursday. He said his decision to enter the presidential race followed calls from Nigerians who wanted him to move beyond his empowerment programmes and take a more direct role in national politics.

The DLA candidate said his academic and international experiences had shaped his understanding of leadership and national development. He disclosed that he is studying Government, Political Thought and History and had previously focused on programmes supporting low-income market women and young Nigerians.

Adebisi also highlighted a digital literacy campaign launched after the Federal Government introduced computer-based testing for JAMB examinations. He said volunteers and computers were deployed to communities across Osun, Ekiti, Oyo, other parts of the South-West, the North-Central region and the Federal Capital Territory to help secondary school students build digital skills.

He said pressure from Nigerians eventually convinced him that social interventions alone could not solve the country’s deeper problems. Adebisi said he subsequently travelled to China to study its economic transformation, including the reforms that began in 1978, while also examining the United States’ approach to liberty and governance.

Those experiences, he said, have strengthened his belief that he can defeat President Bola Tinubu and the All Progressives Congress, APC, in 2027. “The presidential candidate of the DLA is the youngest presidential candidate or the incoming president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the youngest,” he said.

Adebisi also presented the DLA as a movement that has quietly built its political structure ahead of the election. Describing the strategy as a “submarine approach”, he claimed the party had expanded its network without attracting much public attention. He further claimed that the DLA was the only political party registered by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, between 2022 and 2026, despite 171 political associations seeking registration during the period.

The presidential candidate urged Nigerian youths to support his political campaign, arguing that young people should play a more active role in deciding the country’s political future. His declaration adds another youthful voice to the growing field of contenders positioning themselves ahead of the 2027 presidential election.