The Peoples Democratic Party has confirmed ongoing efforts to carry again Peter Obi, the previous Anambra governor and 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate, into its fold.
This was revealed by PDP Deputy Nationwide Publicity Secretary, Ibrahim Abdullahi, on Thursday, July 17, throughout an interview on Come up Tv.
He described Obi as a significant political asset whose return would considerably strengthen the get together forward of the following normal elections.
“Peter Obi is our product. We need to get him again, certainly, as a result of he’s a really, very nice capital for any political get together,” Abdullahi stated.
He praised Obi’s efficiency within the 2023 elections, noting that the Labour Party candidate secured over six million votes regardless of what he termed “institutional obstacles.”
“If he had not gone the best way he did within the final dispensation and had not confronted the institutional obstacles that have been positioned in his path, we’re assured he would have carried out even higher.
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“That he was nonetheless in a position to command over six million votes reveals he isn’t a candidate to disregard,” Abdullahi added.
Obi, who left the PDP simply earlier than the 2023 primaries, finally got here third within the presidential race, behind PDP’s Atiku Abubakar and the winner, Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the APC.
Acknowledging the impression of Obi’s exit on the PDP’s efficiency, Abdullahi stated the get together continues to carry him in excessive regard and views his potential return as a strategic benefit.
“Each political get together that will get the chance to have him shall be better off. And definitely, PDP shouldn’t be giving up on that effort,” he stated.
Based on him, the get together is presently in consultations and long-term planning periods aimed toward constructing a united entrance with different opposition forces in anticipation of the 2027 normal elections.
“Within the fullness of time, we consider we’d get him again. Will probably be an enormous increase to the PDP,” Abdullahi said.
Obi is but to publicly reply to the PDP’s efforts, however the growth comes amid mounting stress on opposition events to type an alliance robust sufficient to problem the APC, which has been in energy since 2015.
