- He stated that Obi is a product of the PDP, adding that despite massive rigging and manipulation of the electoral process in 2023, he still garnered over 6 million votes
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has described former Anambra State governor, Peter Obi, as a great and valuable asset that any political party will be more than happy to have in its ranks.
This is even as the party disclosed it is doing everything possible to bring the Labour Party presidential candidate for the 2023 election back to the party.
The Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Ibrahim Abdullahi, made the disclosure while speaking on Arise News on Thursday night,
He stated that Obi is a product of the PDP, adding that despite massive rigging and manipulation of the electoral process in 2023, he still garnered over 6 million votes.
In the build-up to the 2023 general election, Peter Obi, a former vice presidential candidate of the PDP, left the party for the Labour Party.
He became the LP’s consensus candidate and went on to contest the presidential election against the likes of Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and PDP’s Atiku Abubakar.
Obi won twelve states, including the federal capital territory, FCT, Abuja but came third behind Atiku and the subsequent winner, Tinubu, according to the final results as declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
Speaking during the interview, Abdullahi said that plans are underway to return Peter Obi to the opposition party.
“Peter Obi is our product, and the PDP indeed wants to get him back. He is a very great capital for any political party, and any political party that will have him will be to their advantage,” he said.
“The truth of the matter is if he had not gone the way he did in the last dispensation and proved that mettle to generate over six million despite the rigging and frustration of his chances in many of the states. Peter Obi is truly a political capital no doubt about it,” he added.
Peter Obi recently claimed that he is still a member of the Labour Party but would work with the newly formed Coalition under the African Democratic Congress.