Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) reconciliation committee member Eddy Olafeso has emphasized the significance of interacting with Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s 2023 presidential candidate, and leaders of other opposition parties in order to establish a coalition that will defeat the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2027 elections.
After switching to the Labour Party before the 2022 primaries, Obi, who had previously run for the PDP candidacy, received 6,101,533 votes, placing him third behind Tinubu, who won with 8,794,726 votes, and PDP candidate Atiku Abubakar, who received 6,984,520 votes.
Whether the struggling PDP should approach Obi to improve their chances against the APC in 2027 was one of the questions posed to Olafeso during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today show on Wednesday.
In response, he said it is crucial to interact with Peter Obi as well as any other powerful people in the nation who might be able to cast votes.
In order to defeat the APC in 2027, the PDP leader emphasized the importance of assembling a strong coalition, emphasizing the formidable obstacles that a single political party would encounter in its attempt to overthrow the ruling party.
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Not only do you have alliances here, but you also have people that are cooperating to win an election.
No one party can beat the APC by itself, so we shouldn’t fool ourselves. It happened in Ghana not too long ago, and it is precisely what we should all do right now. Olafeso continued, “We have to unite to fight.”
He blamed the party’s disintegration on the PDP leadership prior to the 2023 election, which contributed to the party’s electoral failure.
Olafeso criticized the PDP leadership for failing to bring the party together prior to the 2023 election, pointing out that Tinubu would have finished far behind if the votes of Atiku and Obi had been added together.
The PDP is still in disarray, according to reports, as Atiku and FCT Minister Nyesom Wike have not yet reconciled after their disagreement during the party’s 2022 primary.
The party would overcome this obstacle and bring everyone back together, Olafeso insisted, adding that the rift between the two leaders could yet be healed.
