Moves are ongoing to get the leading Nigeria’s opposition figures, Mr. Peter Obi and Rabiu Kwankwaso of the Labour Party (LP) and the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), respectively to forge an alliance against the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2027.
The PDP deputy national spokesman, Ibrahim Abdullahi, stated this on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily programme, yesterday.
Abdullahi said if Obi and Kwankwaso had remained in the PDP which had Atiku Abubakar as its standard bearer during the election, it would have defeated Bola Tinubu of the APC.
Kwankwaso and Obi left the PDP in March and May 2022, a few months before the 2023 presidential election. In the election, Tinubu polled 8,794,726, while Atiku got 6,984,520 votes. Obi garnered 6,101,533 while Kwankwaso, former Kano State governor, finished fourth with 1,496,687 votes.
Abdullahi said the opposition would have carried the day if Peter Obi and Kwankwaso had not left the fold. “We’ve lost Kwankwaso, we’ve lost Peter Obi, all of these people, imagine if they are in the party, we will have gone to win the elections.
“This APC said they defeated us with one million plus (votes), just one of these names that I mentioned would have covered that gap for us and we would have been in power today and certainly Nigerians would not have been confronted with this despair and despondency in the land.”
Credit: The S u n