{"id":110073,"date":"2024-01-11T17:53:14","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T16:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=110073"},"modified":"2024-01-11T17:53:14","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T16:53:14","slug":"2027-i-consulted-atiku-peter-obi-kwankwaso-on-forming-new-party-against-tinubu-pat-utomi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/2027-i-consulted-atiku-peter-obi-kwankwaso-on-forming-new-party-against-tinubu-pat-utomi\/","title":{"rendered":"2027: I consulted Atiku, Peter Obi, Kwankwaso on forming new party against Tinubu \u2013 Pat Utomi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1787802148245260317\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">A political economist, Pat Utomi, has disclosed that he engaged presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, Labour Party\u2019s Peter Obi, and New Nigeria People\u2019s Party\u2019s Rabiu Kwankwaso to form a new political party.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nUtomi said the new political party will stand as a formidable force against the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, led by President Bola Tinubu.<\/p>\n<p>Featuring on Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today programme, the professor said the new party will be a clean start, with ideas and a clear agenda.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cI talked to several of the presidential candidates in the last election about this track we are traveling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have had conversations with Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, I have had conversations with Engineer Rabiu Kwankwaso, I have had conversations with Peter Gregory Obi and people like Ralph Okey Nwosu of ADC and some of the people who probably constitute the base.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is actually a clean start. 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