The Deputy National Spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ibrahim Abdullahi has revealed in an interview plans of a merger between Atiku Abubakar, Peter Obi, Rabiu Kwankwaso and Nasir El-rufai ahead of the 2027 Presidential election and this is in a bid to unseat the current ruling party APC and also salvage Nigerians from hunger and widespread insecurity.
He made this statement on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily programme on Monday.
According to the PDP spokesman, the three opposition candidates in the last presidential election will put personal interests aside to work towards defeating the ruling APC and President Bola Tinubu in 2027.
When asked if the PDP was trying to get Obi, Kwankwaso, Wike and others back into the party, Abdullahi said: “We’ve lost Kwankwaso, we’ve lost Peter Obi, all of these people, imagine if they were in the party, we would 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.
“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.
‘’One of them would concede for the other and then we would have a direction. Our concern as a party and to these people that I have mentioned is to ensure that we salvage Nigerians from this despair and despondency, between maladies of hunger and frightening insecurity in the land. You could see cluelessness and ineptitude on the part of these people managing this country.”
Some individuals like, Omoyele Sowore, APC Chieftan Alhaji (Dr) Ilyasu Musa Kwankwaso have predicted the downfall of this merger as no one would want to step down for the other.
Nigeria is watching to see how all this will play out, please feel free to share your views in the comment section below.
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