2027: Peter Obi unlikely to decamp to PDP – Party chieftain, Sani

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Umar Sani, has said the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, in the 2023 general elections, Peter Obi, is not likely to return to the PDP.

Sani, a Senior Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to former Vice President Namadi Sambo, stated this on Friday when he appeared as a guest on ‘The Morning Show’, a programme on Arise Television.

“Peter Obi has just of late, yesterday, directed all his supporters to vote for an African Democratic Congress, ADC, candidate while he is still in the Labour Party. The Labour Party this morning has asked all its members to disregard Obi’s directives.

“This has shown that Peter Obi is married to the ADC, and he is most unlikely to defect to the PDP. Although he has made allusion to the fact that the PDP has approached him,” he said.

According to him, the clamour for the return of former President Goodluck Jonathan and the former Anambra State Governor Peter Obi to the PDP is just conjecture.

The party chieftain added that the PDP was trying hard to bring in more capable hands, given the comatose nature of the party.

“The people in the party are incapacitated by many factors; we have lost two governors to the APC, with a close possibility of Rivers State. The Wike factor is also still very much alive. No political party can survive without high-profile personalities,” he added.

2027: Peter Obi unlikely to decamp to PDP – Party chieftain, Sani