Speculations are rife that the Labour Party has noted that its former Presidential candidate, Peter Obi will not get automatic ticket come 2027 elections.
This is followed by recent statements made by the Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate in the 2023 election, Obi and his New Nigerian Peoples Party, NNPP, counterpart, Rabiu Kwankwaso that the rumoured merger talks between key parties was fake.
Topsociety recalls that some reports had alleged that Kwankwaso, Obi and former vice president, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party are in talks to form an alliance
against the ruling party ahead of 2027.
According to the speculation, Kwankwaso reached an agreement that himself and Atiku would serve for four years each as Nigerian president, while Peter Obi would do eight.
However, in an interview with BBC Hausa, Kwankwaso denied the purported agreement, saying that events that unfolded in the previous elections should make some leaders refrain from anything related to the selection of candidates.
According to him, some northerners, “who declared themselves as the leaders of the north”, should allow the people to choose who they really want to be President.
In his reaction to the issue, Obi, who spoke at a press conference in Abuja on Thursday declared that there was no merger deal between him and any opposition figure.
The former governor, however, rallied all patriotic Nigerians, especially in the opposition parties to consider coming together in 2027 to sack the President Bola Tinubu-led administration.
