As speculations grow over the possible return of Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi, to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), his former Special Adviser on Public Affairs during the 2023 elections, Katchy Ononuju, has said the African Democratic Congress (ADC) will crumble if Obi decides to contest on a different platform in 2027.
Naijaonpoint reports that this stand comes after former Borno State Governor, Ali Modu Sheriff, claimed that Obi, is set to dump LP for PDP.
Sheriff, a former National Chairman of the PDP, made this known on Monday during an appearance on Channels Television’s Politics Today.
Speaking in an interview with Daily Post on Tuesday, Ononuju described Obi as a political force capable of reshaping any party he joins.
He said, “What I said to people was that the minute we decide on a platform, that Ruga called ADC will collapse. Yes, they are talking to us, yes, Peter has had good talks with them and anything can happen. As I said earlier, a week and month is a long time in politics.
“Now that they said they have zoned to the South, micro-zoning is the beginning of a new thing and that will force other platforms to zone to the South and if that happens as they said, the rest will be history.
“I want to assure you that the reason why we took the Labour Party platform to run was because the PDP refused to zone. I also want to assure you that I intervened and said that we will not do anything with the ADC because they were not equivocal about zoning. When they started prevaricating and Atiku started saying what he said, that was when I told Peter that I will go public and I will insist that if they don’t zone, I will not support you and I will tell the movement not to support you. Because of that Peter told them that the movement said they will not support him and so he insisted that they zone.
“And so, if they zone and the ADC zone, then we will tell the ADC to come back and reunite with the PDP. I will confess to you that the singular reason that Atiku formed the ADC is because the governors told them that they were going to zone to the South. If they want to go to the ADC, it will be an empty place because there is nobody there.
“If we get back to PDP, we can make peace and repair the stage that seems to have been balkanized by Buccaneers by Wike and so. We can send people back there to do things and we put people in position. Party and structure are human beings, so we have a lot of time to come back and say let’s do this and that.”
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