Three opposition candidates in the 2023 Presidential elections: PDP’s Atiku Abubakar, Labour Party’s Peter Obi and Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) are likely to put personal interests aside and form a formidable alliance to oust the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2027 polls.
Speaking in an interview on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily programme this Monday, the PDP deputy national spokesman, Ibrahim Abdullahi revealed that the three leading opposition figures are currently discussing the possibility of a merger to salvage Nigerians from hunger and widespread insecurity ahead of the 2027 presidential election.
“Sure, discussion is ongoing. You will see Peter Obi discussing with Atiku, you will see Peter Obi meeting with (Nasir) El-Rufai. Party management is a very difficult thing and we are doing the best in the quagmire that we have found ourselves. Rest assured, there would light at the end of the tunnel. We have learnt our lessons in a bitter way”, the Deputy spokesman said.
Abdulahi argued that if the party’s past leadership had managed differences and party conflicts well, high-ranking chieftains like former Rivers State governor Nyesom Wike, Kwankwaso and Obi would still be full-blooded members of the PDP to defeat Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the last election.
He said, “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.”
Abdulahi noted that in the 2023 presidential election, Tinubu, came out tops in 12 of Nigeria’s 36 states, and secured significant numbers in several other states to claim the highest number of votes — 8,794,726, almost two million votes more than his closest rival — Atiku Abubakar of the PDP.
On who will step down for who if the come together, he assured that One of them would concede for the other to give the alliance a direction.
