Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 general elections, Mr. Peter Obi, on Monday, held a closed door meeting separately with his People’s Democratic Party (PDP) counterpart, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, together with a former Governor of Jigawa State, Alhaji Sule Lamido, at their Abuja homes.
Mr. Obi was said to have arrived Atiku’s house before visiting Lamido over what is yet to be known as at the time of filing this report.
Although sources disclosed that the private meetings might not be unconnected with the build up to 2027 general elections.
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Meanwhile, political observers opined that Mr. Obi might be warming his way back to the PDP since it was the Party he ran as running mate to Atiku in 2019.
They argued that the crisis in LP might have made Mr. Obi to think of returning to his previous political Party which he dumped in May 2022.
It would be recalled that Mr. Obi dumped the PDP in 2022 before its presidential primaries when he claimed that the party did not give room for ‘constructive contributions’.
Also, recently in a podcast, the Media Adviser to Atiku, Mr. Paul Ibe, disclosed that the Minister of FCT, Barr. Nyesom Wike, was responsible for the defection of Obi to LP, adding that in 2023 Atiku was ready to drop his presidential ambition if the PDP could have micro-zoned the party’s ticket to the South East.
