Amidst Obi won’t step down for Atiku, says campaign DG Okupe that the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi, is under pressure by the the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to lure him back to the party and reach agreement with its presidential candidate for the 2023 election, Atiku Abubakar, the Director-General of the Peter Obi Campaign Organisation, Dr Doyin Okupe, has vowed that the former governor would not step down for any candidate.
Obi’s media aide, Valentine Obienyem, also told newsmen in an interview that his principal was content with being the candidate of the Labour Party.
The Punch Newspaper has reported that Atiku is mulling over the option of engaging the presidential candidates of the Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi, and the New Nigeria Peoples Party, Rabiu Kwankwaso, in talks on how to work together to defeat the ruling All Progressives Congress.
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Obi, who is a former governor of Anambra State and Atiku’s running mate in the 2019 presidential election, and Kwankwaso, a former governor of Kano State, were members of the PDP before they defected to their respective parties to actualise their presidential ambitions.
Obi won’t step down, says campaign DG
But when asked if the LP candidate would be favourably disposed to negotiating with the PDP, the Director-General of the Peter Obi Campaign Organisation, Dr Doyin Okupe, vowed that the former governor would not step down for any candidate, adding that the candidate and his supporters were focused on the task ahead.
“The support Peter Obi is getting across the country is too massive for anyone to ask him to step down for anyone. Nobody ever thought Obi could leave the PDP, but he left. The real third force is here with us. The coming revolution is beyond Obi. Peter Obi is a man whose time has come. The PDP and the APC have expired. They are no longer relevant in Nigeria’s current situation.”
