2027 Elections: APC Too Strong for Any Single Party, PDP Needs Obi – Olafeso

Eddy Olafeso, a member of the PDP’s reconciliation committee, has emphasized the significance of interacting with Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s 2023 presidential candidate, and leaders of other opposition parties in order to build a coalition that will defeat the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2027 elections.
Prior to the 2022 primaries, Obi, who had previously run for the PDP nomination, switched to the Labour Party. With 6,101,533 votes, he came in third place behind Tinubu, who won with 8,794,726 votes, and PDP candidate Atiku Abubakar, who received 6,984,520 votes.
In an appearance on Wednesday’s Politics Today show on Channels Television, Olafeso was questioned if the struggling PDP should get in touch with Obi in order to improve their prospects of defeating the APC in 2027.

In response, he said that it is crucial to interact with Peter Obi as well as any other powerful people in the nation who could be able to cast votes.

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The PDP leader emphasized the huge obstacles a single political party would encounter in trying to overthrow the ruling party and reaffirmed the need for a strong coalition to oppose the APC in 2027.

“You have people cooperating to win an election; it’s not just here that you have partnerships.

“It happened in Ghana not too long ago, and it is precisely what we should all do right now. Don’t fool yourself; no one party can defeat the APC by itself. To fight, we must all unite,” Olafeso continued.

He blamed the PDP leadership for the party’s disintegration prior to the 2023 election, a development that contributed to the party’s electoral defeat.

Olafeso bemoaned the PDP leadership’s inability to bring the party together prior to the 2023 election, pointing out that Tinubu would have finished far behind if the votes of Atiku and Obi had been added together.

According to reports, the PDP is still in upheaval since Atiku and Nyesom Wike, the minister of the Federal Capital Territory, have not yet reconciled after their disagreement during the party’s 2022 primary.

Olafeso, however, insisted that the gap between the two leaders could be healed and expressed hope that the party will overcome this obstacle and bring everyone back together.