{"id":171572,"date":"2025-07-28T23:24:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T22:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/peter-obis-path-to-pdp-presidential-ticket"},"modified":"2025-07-29T00:27:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T23:27:19","slug":"peter-obis-path-to-pdp-presidential-ticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/peter-obis-path-to-pdp-presidential-ticket","title":{"rendered":"Peter Obi&#8217;s Path to PDP Presidential Ticket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, former Borno State governor, has claimed that the presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 general elections, Peter Obi, is on his way back to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.<\/p>\n<p>Obi left PDP in 2022 to secure the Labour Party presidential ticket.<\/p>\n<p>The former Anambra governor is currently part of a coalition of opposition figures plotting to unseat President Bola Tinubu in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>The coalition had adopted the African Democratic Congress, ADC, as its platform to contest the next election.<\/p>\n<p>However, the presidential ambitions of some coalition members, including former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and former Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi, have triggered speculation that Obi may opt out.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Channels TV on Monday, Modu Sheriff claimed that available information indicates Obi will return to PDP at any moment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs far as this politics is concerned, ADC doesn\u2019t exist. Give the party three months and it will die down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe information available to me is that at any moment from now Peter Obi will go back to PDP and run as a presidential candidate under PDP,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The former governor also insisted that, with the political structures available, the ruling party will retain victory in 2027.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, former Borno State governor, has claimed that the presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 general elections, Peter Obi, is on his way back to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Obi left PDP in 2022 to secure the Labour Party presidential ticket. 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