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Ahead of the 2027 election, the 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, says there is no merger deal yet with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) or any other party.

The former Anambra State governor stated this on Thursday morning when he held a press conference in Abuja on the state of the nation.

He added that no agreement has been established with other parties yet. He rallied all lovers of Nigeria in the political space to come together in 2027 and defeat the All Progressives Congress (APC), which he accused of mismanaging the country’s resources.

Also, Obi described the security situation in the country as unfortunate, saying Nigerians die needlessly due to banditry, terrorism, and kidnapping-for-ransom.

He said the level of corruption in Nigeria remained high and so is the cost of governance which has led to an astronomical increase in public debt under the current istration of President Bola Tinubu of the APC.

Obi stated that government officials willfully mismanaged public funds in 2024 through incessant foreign travels.

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.

Atiku, who has ran for president six times, got 6,984,520 votes, while Obi, a first-time contestant, secured an unprecedented 6,101,533. NNPP’s Rabiu Kwankwaso, former Kano State governor, finished fourth, claiming victory in his state — Kano. He secured 1,496,687 votes.

Interestingly, Obi and Kwankwaso were PDP months before the last poll but cited irreconciliable difference as reasons they exited the party.

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He added that no agreement has been established with other parties yet. He rallied all lovers of Nigeria in the political space to come together in 2027 and defeat the All Progressives Congress (APC), which he accused of mismanaging the country’s resources.

Anything to legally eject that thing from villa.. is most welcome ..
Is a matter of time … all will align .. October November.. pictures will be clear .. alignment and realignment.
Obi should plead with his friend and Boss Obj on need of forgiveness.

Nigeria is a very important country. And over 200 millions citizens can be seen suffering because of his mistrust… other has forgiven and moved ahead.. and Waziri has shown enough remorse . Nigeria must move forward.

Atiku Abubakar the man the Yoruba government fears and tremble is the next President of Nigeria
Is all clear to all.. that an experienced Atiku would have handle Nigeria economy better .. that the yoruba god in villa

…sane and patriotic Nigerians are tired of this tribalistic and propagandist Yoruba government. Why punish Nigerians for nothing .. while steadily and greedily enjoying their tax.. without remorse.. giving them lamba and ing it with stories.

By his grace not juju..

Tinubu is a Yoruba fool.. a tribalistic drug dullard and empty brain.

God bless Nigerians
God bless our country Nigeria

Yet.. which means the door is open for decamping. This political prostitute is waiting for Atiku to waybill his transport to appear at PDP hotel for hookup. Unlike Kwankwaso who blasted Atiku and has flatly rejected any merger with PDP, LP.


-Kiss the truth!

Yet?

If that happens, Peter Obi should not expect his ers to move with him.
He should know it's not just about him, but about Labour party as a movement.
He's not well established as a politician to make such move.

mariahAngel:
Yet?

You really do think LP can win the Presidential election?

Any new coalition that lacks a Marshall Plan to build a new economic foundation for Nigeria will be tragic.

We need to move away from the leadership mediocrity that has persisted in the last 20 years. We need something different from what Tinubu is currently doing. We a paradigm shift.

Let's divide this country and let everybody go his way.

Peter Obi will NEVER be President ✍🏾

Pity giiiriiigooory thinks he's some Pep Guardiola that any team would be glad to welcome into their midst. A joker

Pity doesnt matter in the grand scheme of things, in fact, no special plans to stop him merger or not


Any merger with Kwankwaso or Atiku is just a conglomeration of losers at best, failure x failure = double failure



Nonsense briefing from a nonsense person

We are patiently waiting for the merger because sane Nigerians will do anything to rescue Nigeria from the hands of this useless president

Arewa can’t wait for 2027 .. but we must for the love of Nigeria..

East and South.. must not be deceive ..
… west has been conquered almost with “ tribalism” .. maybe because they’re drawing from different water in Nigeria.

Nigeria muSt be great.. Tinubu and APC will never ever get it right .. in a billion years .


God help us .

PrinceOfLagos:
We are patiently waiting for the merger because sane Nigerians will do anything to rescue Nigeria from the hands of this useless president

The whole continent.. not only Nigeria is looking forward to see it come through.

And we aren't sure there will be one. The Jonathan option can be a political unifier and solution.

This man is a simp, he is not Alpha at all.

I am afraid if Peter Obi doesn't contest Tinubu might not win in 2027.
Obi need to contest to cut off South East votes. In this way regardless of who contest from the North Tinubu will be returned to continue with his bold reform.
Tinubu should do everything possible to encourage Obi to contest.

Peter Pand@ra Obituary should not gree for anybody
He should contest again at least to give Tulumbu victory

You better do

At least we need an opposition that can take APC to the mirrors rather than what we currently have.

The position you handle well until you started learning from Tinubu policies, and start shouting Whao! Whao!!

Wen 2 of you know you will still work together, why not parley wen it's possible?


Is too late oga obedient.

kererenke. The people who sold all our national treasures to their croonies cheap under the guise of privatisation, swore that we cannot afford modern rail and trains, cannot build a second Niger bridge, and that our refineries can never work want to rescue Nigeria.
Today three refineries are working in Nigeria. We will be exporting petrol and others to the rest of Africa and maybe outside this year. The work with Siemens on electricity will soon produce results, the work on gas is also massive and due to the PIA that fPMB signed. The Electricity Act that allows others to generate electricity is also coming to life. Local governments will breathe life this year. A LG chairman that used to get 50million from his governor with lobbying and thank yous and palm greasings will get 5billion for his people. Tax reforms will be implemented this year. When Nigeria starts generating 500% increase in revenue, Ajaokuta steel working and all, wailers will give excuses about how Nigeria has always been blessed and the giant of Africa and how this is the work of Azikwe and Lugard and not a drug baron.

Hypocrite.

U claim you won the election what then is the basis for merger for.

A man who falsely claim to have won is here looking for collaboration with other party.

A sycophant.

Obi will never be president of a united Nigeria.

Frigga13:
Arewa can’t wait for 2027 .. but we must for the love of Nigeria..

East and South.. must not be deceive ..
… west has been conquered almost with “ tribalism” .. maybe because they’re drawing from different water in Nigeria.

Nigeria muSt be great.. Tinubu and APC will never ever get it right .. in a billion years .


God help us .

Ok,Mr tinubu must contest! Must ! North 2023!power to the north ! Loser

Obi go and sit down. You can never be president

TimeManager:
Yet.. which means the door is open for decamping. This political prostitute is waiting for Atiku to waybill his transport to appear at PDP hotel for hookup. Unlike Kwankwaso who blasted Atiku and has flatly rejected any merger with PDP, LP.


-Kiss the truth!

So are still licking your pay master's ass after turning you into zombie 😂💔

I don't pity you jare 😂
Continue to be gullible ok😂💔

Frigga13:
He added that no agreement has been established with other parties yet. He rallied all lovers of Nigeria in the political space to come together in 2027 and defeat the All Progressives Congress (APC), which he accused of mismanaging the country’s resources.

Anything to legally eject that thing from villa.. is most welcome ..
Is a matter of time … all will align .. October November.. pictures will be clear .. alignment and realignment.
Obi should plead with his friend and Boss Obj on need of forgiveness.

Nigeria is a very important country. And over 200 millions citizens can be seen suffering because of his mistrust… other has forgiven and moved ahead.. and Waziri has shown enough remorse . Nigeria must move forward.

Atiku Abubakar the man the Yoruba government fears and tremble is the next President of Nigeria
Is all clear to all.. that an experienced Atiku would have handle Nigeria economy better .. that the yoruba god in villa

…sane and patriotic Nigerians are tired of this tribalistic and propagandist Yoruba government. Why punish Nigerians for nothing .. while steadily and greedily enjoying their tax.. without remorse.. giving them lamba and ing it with stories.

By his grace not juju..

Tinubu is a Yoruba fool.. a tribalistic drug dullard and empty brain.

God bless Nigerians
God bless our country Nigeria

Based on his campaigns and the results across regions, it is obvious that Pandora Bitter Obi is the ethno-religious bigot of a naive politician who helped T-Pain achieve his ebilokan dream of continuing APC shege that was scamdemically packaged as change.

jameshankss:
Anambra State Governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, has said he is sure the candidate of Labour Party (LP), Mr Peter Obi, would lose the 2023 presidential election. Soludo said he would not submit to the bullying of Obi’s ers, who recently descended on him for addressing issues in the state.

The governor made the comments in a lengthy write-up personally authored, with the title, “History Beckons, and I Will Not Be Silent (Part 1).”

Soludo said Obi was inadvertently making the pathway to victory much easier for the presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, and at the same time, toying with the destiny of millions of Ndigbo.

But the chief spokesperson for the Labour Party Presidential Campaign, Yunusa Tanko, accused Soludo of being sponsored by some unknown persons to weaken the base of the party in the South-east.

The former CBN governor had been under intense attack for close to a week for dismissing Obi’s investment in the state as amounting to nothing, during a television interview.

Soludo said in the write-up, “My attention has been drawn to some of the tirades on social media following my frank response during an interview on Channels TV regarding the ‘investments’ Mr. Peter Obi claimed to have made with Anambra State revenues.

“Sadly, several of the comments left the issue of the interview to probe or suggest motives, inferred from my response on ‘investment’ that I am opposed to Peter Obi’s ambition and, therefore, committed a ‘crime’ for which the punishment is internecine abuse and harassment, even to my family.

“Everyone knows that I don’t follow the winds or one to succumb to bullies, or shy away from a good fight especially, when weighty matters of principles and future of the people are involved.”

Soludo said he had urged Obi to return to his former party, the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), to actualise his presidential bid. He added that he had always told the LP candidate to his face that he was not capable of winning the 2023 presidential election, especially, under LP, which had neither a councillor nor a local government chairman.

Soludo said Obi was not just his friend, but also his brother, but despite that, they have their political differences.

He stated, “For full disclosure, let me state that Peter Obi and I are not just friends, we call ourselves ‘brothers’. But we have political differences: he left APGA for PDP after his tenure as governor, while I have remained in APGA since 2013.

“During the last two governorship elections in Anambra in 2017 and 2021, he led the PDP campaigns but APGA won landslide in both elections. By the way, in 2016, he visited and proposed that I defect to PDP and contest the 2017 election against the incumbent Willie Obiano, but I declined.

“After my victory in November 2021, he called to congratulate me, as I did to him in 2010. That is the Anambra way: we fight fiercely during campaigns but share drinks at the next social events. After all, it was the Great Zik of Africa, who taught us that in politics, there are no permanent friends or permanent enemies but only permanent interests.”

Arguing that Obi’s presidential bid would only work in favour of Tinubu, Soludo said, “Indeed, if I were Asiwaju Tinubu, I would even give Peter Obi money as someone heading one of the departments of his campaign, because Obi is making Tinubu’s pathway to victory much easier by indirectly pulling down PDP.”

Obi, according to Soludo, would only deplete the votes of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and pave the path for an APC victory.

He stated, “The current fleeting frenzy, if not checked, will cost Ndigbo dearly for years. The South-east has the lowest number of votes of any region, but it is also the only region where the presidential race might be a four-way race (it is a two-way race in the other five regions) thereby, ensuring that our votes won’t count in the making of the next president of Nigeria.

https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2022/11/15/soludo-i-wont-succumb-to-bullies-obi-knows-he-cant-win/

It's only a merger that can bring down APC all these selfish politican should massage their Ego and work together. If Atiku is on the Ballot after the Meger he would lose. Peter obi for president Kwankwanso his Vice then he can contest for president. Kwankwanso is just more of a local politician which has his Block vote from Kano, he can't actualize his dream without merging with others and being patient for his time, as for Atiku when he realize that The highest office he can Attain is Vice presidency in his lifetime then he would best know that playing a Elderstateman figure would be best for him.
Obi is too predictable with his game in politics he should try fine tuning that at off all of them is still obi that still get more considerate and would still treat people right, all of them na thief but obi na lesser thief, I'm Yoruba and I regret say I vote for tinubu 2023. The guy just disguise for us win presidency show us shege.
Only election is the only protest that works in this country, make we wise 2027 none of them be saviour but I would vote a lesser thief

fergie001:
You really do think LP can win the Presidential election?

In a merger with other political entities, Yes!

Obi should not worry about the next general election cos tinubu will win it, especially now that he's the presido.

TimeManager:
Yet.. which means the door is open for decamping. This political prostitute is waiting for Atiku to waybill his transport to appear at PDP hotel for hookup. Unlike Kwankwaso who blasted Atiku and has flatly rejected any merger with PDP, LP.


-Kiss the truth!

You should be old enough to know politicians and their words are taken with grains if salt,so stop gallivanting and giving yourself unnecessary migraine.


Truth is mine

A merger party might be the only was anyone unsits APC in Nigeria...but i doubt if greed will allow that happen

FearlessYoruba:
Let's divide this country and let everybody go his way.

Seconded