{"id":129682,"date":"2024-09-02T11:52:21","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T10:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/2027-atiku-obi-kwankwaso-planning-possible-merger-pdp"},"modified":"2024-09-02T12:56:35","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T11:56:35","slug":"2027-atiku-obi-kwankwaso-planning-possible-merger-pdp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-atiku-obi-kwankwaso-planning-possible-merger-pdp","title":{"rendered":"2027: Atiku, Obi, Kwankwaso planning possible merger \u2013 PDP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Deputy National Spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ibrahim Abdullahi, has said the three leading opposition figures in Nigeria are discussing the possibility of a merger to salvage Nigerians from hunger and widespread insecurity ahead of the 2027 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Abdullahi made this statement on Channels Television\u2019s Sunrise Daily programme on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the three opposition candidates in the last elections\u2014PDP\u2019s Atiku Abubakar, Labour Party\u2019s Peter Obi, and Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria People\u2019s Party (NNPP)\u2014would put personal interests aside and form a formidable alliance to defeat the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2027 and salvage Nigerians from hunger.<\/p>\n<p>He said that had the party\u2019s past leadership managed differences and party conflicts well, high-ranking chieftains like former Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike, Kwankwaso, and Obi would still be full-blooded members of the PDP, and the party would have defeated Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the last election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve lost Kwankwaso, we\u2019ve lost Peter Obi, all of these people; imagine if they were in the party, we would have won the elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis APC said they defeated us with one million plus (votes); just one of these names that I mentioned would have covered that gap for us, and we would have been in power today, and certainly Nigerians would not have been confronted with this despair and despondency in the land,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About Nigeria Follow Africa-Press<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. 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