A member of the Peoples Democratic Party’s reconciliation committee, Eddy Olafeso, has told the party to speak with Labour Party Presidential candidate in 2023, Peter Obi and other opposition political party leaders for an alliance ahead of the 2027 general elections.
He believes that it is the only guarantee to defeat the All
Progressives Congress, APC, in 2027.
Obi, who was contesting the 2023 presidential election under
the PDP, dumped the party and joined the Labour Party.
Under the Labour Party, the former Anambra State Governor
contested and garnered a total of 6,101,533 votes, according to the Independent
National Electoral, INEC, to come third.
Many of his supporters still harbour the belief that he
actually won the election but was rigged out, however, that remains
unconfirmed.
Olafeso was on Channels Television’s Politics Today on
Wednesday, where he was asked if the crisis-hit main opposition party need to
court Obi to have a chance against the APC in 2027.
According to him, “Not only Peter Obi, every person that is
somebody in this country that can actually garner one or two votes must be
spoken with.”
The PDP chieftain said it would be difficult for any single
political party to defeat the APC without a strong alliance.
“It is not only here that you have alliances; you have
people working together to be able to win an election.
“It happened in Ghana not quite a long time ago and that is
exactly what we all should do at this moment, no single party can defeat the
APC alone, don’t let us delude ourselves. We must all come together to fight,”
Olafeso added.
He blamed PDP leadership for the balkanisation of the party
ahead of the 2023 election which contributed to its loss at the polls.
Olafeso noted that the combination of Atiku and Obi’s votes
would have sent Tinubu to a distant second, regretting the inability of the PDP
leadership to keep its house together ahead of the 2023 election.
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