Why Obi Dumped PDP – Atiku

Why Obi Dumped PDP – Atiku

On Thursday, Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, revealed why Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi left the PDP.

In response to a journalist’s question, Atiku stated that the LP candidate left the PDP before the primaries because he was afraid of the PDP governors, who had decided that a candidate must emerge from their ranks.

He stated that the former Anambra State governor’s defection from the PDP eliminated him as a possible running mate.

Atiku also revealed that Mr Obi was eager to leave the PDP, whereas he stayed to fight with the PDP governors and win the primary election.

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“I think Peter was in a rush. Do you know why I said he was in a rush? Because when the campaign started, and our PDP governors sat down that they must produce the president among them, they must produce the vice president among them, and they must produce the chief of staff amongst them, Peter got scared and left.

“I did not get scared, I stood up against the governors. When we formed the PDP, some of them were perhaps in secondary school or universities, so why should I be afraid? I stood up and I fought them and I won the primary. If he was there, nothing could have stopped him from becoming a running mate because I had the right to chose whomever I wanted as my running mate.

“The question of whether I would work with Peter or not, whether Peter wounded the PDP—yes to some extent he did because all the votes he carried were PDP votes in the South-east and South-south. So that is true. That is politics. Whether he will achieve his objective by that or not, that is left to God to decide,” he said.

In the 2019 presidential election, Mr. Obi served as Atiku’s running mate. On May 27, 2022, he joined the LP and was given the party’s presidential ticket.

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