Nigeria’s three leading opposition figures are in discussions about potentially backing a unified candidate for the 2027 presidential election.
The National Spokesman for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ibrahim Abdullahi, disclosed this during an interview with Channels Television on Monday, September 2.
He revealed that the three opposition candidates from the last election—PDP’s Atiku Abubakar, Labour Party’s Peter Obi, and Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP)—are considering forming a strong alliance by setting aside personal interests to challenge the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2027 and “rescue Nigerians from hunger.”
Abdullahi also noted that if the PDP’s former leadership had better managed internal differences and conflicts, key figures like former Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike, Kwankwaso, and Peter Obi would still be members of the PDP, and the party might have defeated Bola Tinubu of the APC in the last election.
“We’ve lost Kwankwaso, we’ve lost Peter Obi, all of these people, imagine if they are in the party, we will 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.”
Asked if the PDP is trying to get Obi, Kwankwaso, Wike and others back into the party, Abdullahi said
“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.”
When asked what would happen if Obi and the others returned to the PDP, he said;
‘’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.”
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