Peter Obi’s Meeting With Atiku Not Connected To 2027 – Labour Party

By Our Correspondent

The Labour Party (LP) has dismissed speculations linking the recent meeting between its 2023 presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, and political heavyweights Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Bukola Saraki, and Sule Lamido to the 2027 presidential election.

Contrary to assumptions, LP’s Chieftain Dr. Yunusa Tanko clarified that the gathering focused on national issues, not future political ambitions.

Tanko emphasized Obi’s concern for Nigeria’s challenges, especially in the Northern region, regarding education, healthcare, and poverty.

He highlighted Obi’s strategic outreach to leaders representing various Northern geopolitical zones, aiming for collaborative efforts to alleviate poverty and modernize education systems.

“People cannot eat three square meal, people cannot send their children to school. People are in abject poverty, our leaders need to come to terms with this situation.

“It’s the reason he visited the key leaders. The three leaders if you had observed carefully represent the three geo-political zones in the north, using them as a point of contact to other leaders in the northern part of the country and by extension the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

“Former Vice President Alhaji Atiku Abubakar is from the North-East, Sule Lamido, former Governor of Jigawa State is from the North-West, while former Senate President, Bukola Saraki is from the North-Central. In the meeting, he discussed about working together with them to pull people out of poverty.

“Pulling people out of poverty will help in a number of ways, in terms of security, quality workforce, in terms of healthy individuals and at the same time preparing those children, the Almajiris from the archaic way of education into modern way of education.

“So, he met them for them to collaborate and pull Nigerians out of poverty and safe the country from the serious problem we may be facing in the nearest future.

“These are the major reasons he visited the leaders and we’re happy that they welcomed him with both hands, warmly, and that of course led to issues being raised in the public domain,” Tanko said.