Kwankwaso’s Offer To Be Obi’s Running Mate Will Be in the Interest of Nigerians – LP
The Labour Party, on Sunday, said the new offer by the New Nigeria People’s Party presidential candidate in the 2023 election, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, to be running mate to LP’s Peter Obi in the 2027 presidential election will be in the best interest of Nigerians.
The National Secretary of LP, Umar Farouk, stated this in an interview with The PUNCH describing the renewed move by Kwankwaso as a welcome development.
Farouk however pleaded with the former Kano governor not to kill the merger talk again with his insinuation of being a better politician and holding a higher education degree.
He said, “As a political party, we stand for good governance and we have equally given all our candidates, both former and serving ones, the opportunity to choose how to associate with people of like-minds who share the philosophy and ideology of the Labour Party.
“We are happy Kwankwaso has alighted from the high horse he was riding and willing to offer himself to Obi as deputy having seen he garnered more than six million votes at the 2023 election. With his so-called popularity in the North, Kwankwaso could only amass less than two million votes.
“Again, he should stop this talk of being a bigger politician and PhD holder. What did he even do as a minister of defence? This is why we advise politicians to always consider the dynamics of politics to gauge the temperament of the electorate at a particular time.
“Of course, we know what played out in 2023 will be different from 2027. It will be in the interest of Nigerians if Obi and Kwankwaso are willing to come together and wrest power from the APC government. But again, we know the sitting government will not go to sleep and allow the renewed move to work.”
Didactic Information Hut recalls that Kwankwaso, in a recent viral post, had expressed his willingness to serve as running mate the former Labour Party presidential flag bearer barely two years after talks between both parties failed because due to the inability of either Obi or Kwankwaso to concede the leadership.
The NNPP National Leader who spoke in Hausa, expressed his readiness via a widely circulated video on his official account if ‘certain conditions are met.’
“I’m bigger than Peter Obi politically; I’m his elder brother, I’m a PhD holder, I performed better than him when I was the governor of my state. I’ve no problem with deputising for Peter Obi, but only if certain conditions are met,” Kwankwaso had boastfully said in the interview.
He further expressed the possibility of engaging in meaningful discussions with Obi, noting: “We are willing to engage in discussions, provided that trust is established.”
Didactic Information Hut recalls that in the last elections, Peter Obi of the Labour Party emerged third position with approximately 6,101,533 votes, while Kwankwaso emerged a distant fourth position with 1,496,687 votes.
