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By Myke Agunwa
The Obidient Movement has described as ‘fake’ the recent media report which claimed that the Presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2023, Atiku Abubakar has settled for the Presidential Candidate of Labour Party (LP) Peter Obi as running mate in 2027.
The report went further to state that Atiku has agreed to go for one tenure and thereafter handover to Obi in 2031.
But the Director, Strategic Communications to the Obidient movement, Nana Kazaure, in a statement on Monday, dismissed the claim. He stressed that although Obi is in talks with the mega coalition organizers, he is not desperate to join any alliance that is simply targeted at grabbing power and has not accepted any offer to serve as Vice Presidential candidate to Atiku in the proposed coalition.
Kazaure said, “The Obidient Movement has been inundated with calls from our members within and outside the country, including other members of the public, regarding a media publication claiming that our principal, Peter Obi, has been offered the running mate position to Alhaji Atiku Abubakar in the new coalition being formed ahead of 2027.
“Even as we know that the publication is imaginary to the author, we are tempted not to ignore it because of the possible far-reaching misconception it will have in the public space.
“While frank and cordial engagements with our partners and stakeholders towards a coalition continue amicably, the Obidient Movement would like to state emphatically that there is no truth or basis to the reports whatsoever.
“Without any risk of contradiction, we would like to reiterate that Mr Obi has maintained that his objective and his involvement in a coalition, is to provide a united front against and to tackle issues of bad governance, corruption, hunger, poverty, poor healthcare, out of school children and the myriad of other problems daily afflicting the people of Nigeria.
“We want politics that is progressive, standing firmly with the people and serving the great people of Nigeria and not politics just for the sake of grabbing power”.