Eddy Olafeso, a member of the Peoples Democratic Party’s reconciliation committee has called on the party to speak with Labour Party Presidential candidate in 2023, Peter Obi and other opposition political party leaders.
According to him, the party must speak with Obi and others for an alliance that will defeat the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2027.
Obi, who was an aspirant under the PDP, left the party before its primary in 2022 to the Labour Party where he garnered a total of 6,101,533 votes to come third in the election behind the eventual winner Tinubu who scored a total of 8,794,726 votes and Atiku Abubakar of the PDP who scored 6,984,520 votes.
Asked on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme on Wednesday if the crisis-hit PDP need to court Obi to have a chance against the APC in 2027, Olafeso said, “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 reiterated the need for a strong alliance to battle APC in 2027, saying that it would be very difficult for one political party to defeat the ruling party.
“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 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.
The crisis in the PDP has continued to linger, as Atiku and the FCT Minister Nyesom Wike, are yet to reconcile since their falling out after the party’s primary in 2022.
However, Olafeso insisted that the rift between the two leaders was not irreconcilable, expressing confidence that the party would walk through that door and bring everybody together.
