The Obidient Motion has dismissed experiences suggesting that Peter Obi, the 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party, has been provided the vice-presidential slot in a proposed 2027 coalition led by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar.
In an announcement on Monday, Might 19, signed by Nana Kazaure, the group’s Director of Strategic Communications and Media, the motion described the declare as “totally baseless” and “imaginary to the creator”.
“The Obidient Motion has been inundated with calls from our members inside and outdoors the nation, together with different members of the general public, relating to a media publication claiming that our principal, Peter Obi, has been provided a operating mate place to Alhaji Atiku Abubakar within the new coalition being fashioned forward of 2027,” the assertion learn.
“Though the publication is imaginary to the creator, we discover it applicable to react in view of attainable far-reaching misconceptions within the public house.”
Whereas confirming that Obi has held talks with varied political figures, the group mentioned these engagements should not about power-sharing however centered on fixing Nigeria’s urgent challenges.
“With none threat of contradiction, we want to reiterate that Mr Obi has maintained that his goal and his involvement in a coalition is to offer a united entrance in opposition to and to sort out problems with dangerous governance, corruption, starvation, poverty, poor healthcare, out-of-school kids, and the myriad of different issues day by day afflicting the individuals of Nigeria,” the assertion continued.
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“We wish politics that’s progressive, standing firmly with the individuals and serving the nice individuals of Nigeria, not politics only for the sake of grabbing energy.”
The motion additionally reaffirmed Obi’s loyalty to the Labour Party, including: “At this cut-off date, Mr Peter Obi stays within the Labour Party, and if ever this adjustments, he’ll make that announcement himself.”
Echoing this stance, Obi instructed the Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Kubwa throughout a go to to Abuja on Monday that his focus stays on issue-based politics.
“I’m in a coalition in opposition to starvation, in coalition in opposition to poverty, coalition in opposition to dangerous state of well being. Politics for me is just not about place, it’s about doing the precise factor,” he mentioned.
“On this nation, we discuss politics and abandon what we needs to be speaking about. What we needs to be speaking about is how we’re going to educate the kids.”
He rejected claims that he had agreed to function anybody’s operating mate in 2027, saying such experiences are pushed by “politics of egocentric ambitions detrimental to the expansion of the nation.”
Obi completed third within the 2023 presidential race behind Bola Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar however stays a central opposition determine, with hypothesis mounting over attainable alliances forward of the subsequent election. Nonetheless, he and his supporters proceed to prioritise substance over political comfort.
