The Interim Nationwide Coordinator of the Obidient Motion Worldwide, Yunusa Tanko, on Monday, Peter Obi, is a member of the celebration until additional developments.
Tanko, a campaigner for the 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Get together (LP), stated the previous Anambra State governor has not joined the Social Democratic Get together (SDP).
“So far as I’m involved, His Excellency, Peter Obi, is a member of the Labour Get together. It stays so till when there’s every other factor that will come up,” Tanko stated on Channels Tv’s The Morning Temporary.
The LP chieftain was reacting to a declare by SDP’s 2023 flag bearer Adewole Adebayo who stated Obi and former Vice President Atiku Abubakar have begun talks to affix SDP.
Earlier than Adewole, SDP’s Nationwide Secretary, Olu Agunloye had additionally stated Obi’s males had been lobbying his celebration forward of the subsequent ballot.
Tanko additional added that the leaders of the Labour Get together would make some positions clear to Nigerians within the coming days, particularly consistent with the Supreme Court docket judgment sacking Julius Abure as LP nationwide chairman.
“As I converse to you proper now, there’s going to be a gathering presumably inside the week by the leaders of the celebration to make basic positions clear to everybody, and consistent with the place of the Supreme Court docket ruling and that in fact will put the entire matter to relaxation,” he said.
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Forward of the 2027 polls, talks about an inter-party alliance reached a climax on Thursday, March 20, 2025, when opposition arrowhead Atiku, alongside Obi, ex-Kaduna governor Nasir El-Rufai, amongst others, introduced a coalition to oust incumbent Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) whose administration has been accused of mismanaging the economic system, with all-time excessive inflation and unprecedented value of residing.
The coalition is banking on the numerical energy of the votes recorded by Atiku and Obi within the final ballot. In 2023, Atiku of the Peoples Democratic Get together (PDP) and Labour Get together’s Obi got here second and third respectively with mixed votes of over 12 million, greater than 4 million above the overall votes recorded by Tinubu who was declared the winner by electoral umpire INEC.
With a litany of court docket instances arising from intra-party squabbles and protracted management crises rocking the PDP and the LP, in addition to alleged maltreatment of some APC members, politicians within the three events appear to have made the SDP a darling.
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