PDP also described Obi as its “product”, adding that the former governor of Anambra State is a great asset to any political party.
By Kehinde Okeowo
Nigeria’s main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said it is putting measures in place to bring 2023 Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi back to its fold.
This was disclosed by the party’s Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Ibrahim Abdullahi, while speaking on Arise News on Thursday night.
The development comes after former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, who was PDP’s presidential candidate in the last two general elections resigned from the party.
Speaking during the Arise TV interview, Abdullahi claimed that Obi is a product of the PDP and a great asset to any political party.
He added that despite rigging and all sorts of manipulation of the electoral process in 2023, the former governor of Anambra State was still able to garner over 6 millions votes.
He went on to say plans are in motion to return him to the opposition party.
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“Peter Obi is our product, and the PDP indeed wants to get him back. He is a very great capital for any political party, and any political party that will have him will be to their advantage,” Abdullahi said.
He continued, “The truth of the matter is if he had not gone the way he did in the last dispensation and proved that mettle to generate over six million in spite of the rigging and frustration of his chances in many of the states. Peter Obi is truly a political capital no doubt about it.”
In the build-up to the 2023 general election, Obi, a former vice presidential candidate of the PDP, dumped the party for the Labour Party..
He later got the LP’s sole presidential ticket and went on to contest the presidential election against the likes Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), and PDP’s Atiku Abubakar.
He went on to win twelve states, including the federal capital territory, FCT, Abuja but came third behind Atiku and the subsequent winner, Tinubu.
Obi recently claimed that he is still a member of the Labour Party but would work with the newly formed Coalition under the African Democratic Congress (ADC).
