17th November, 2023
Former presidential aide, Reno Omokri has said any party that featured Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2027 election as presidential candidate or running mate will lose.
Omokri said this while reacting to the decision of Obi’s Labour Party to reject the proposal of a merger of political parties in Nigeria to confront the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC recently proposed by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar.
The 2023 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, made the suggestion during the visit of members of Inter Party Advisory Council, IPAC to him in Abuja.
Omokri, who described the decision of the Labour Party to reject the proposed merger as ‘incredibly unwise’ noted that the “leaked Yes Daddy audio’ has finished Peter Obi’s political career at the federal level forever.
He added that if a “united opposition could not defeat the All Progressives Congress in 2019, it only follows that it will hardly pull it off in 2023 and 2027. That is just pure common sense.
“In Nigeria’s history, only a coalition or merger of parties has been able to take power from the colonialists, the military, or the party in power. So, learn from history or prepare to be history.
“His religious war comments against the Muslim Ummah will not be forgotten. Core Northern Muslims are not as forgetful or have a short attention span as many Southerners.”
Read Reno full statement as he posted on his X below
It is incredibly unwise for the Labour Party to reject Waziri Atiku Abubakar’s call for a merger between them and the Peoples Democratic Party. Especially after the results of the Imo, Kogi and Bayelsa elections. Execute your politics with logic and strategic thinking, not emotion and erratic mentality.
If a united opposition could not defeat the All Progressives Congress in 2019, it only follows that it will hardly pull it off in 2023 and 2027. That is just pure common sense.
In Nigeria’s history, only a coalition or merger of parties has been able to take power from the colonialists, the military, or the party in power. So, learn from history or prepare to be history.
Whichever party features Peter Obi in 2027, whether as a Presidential candidate or running mate, will lose. The leaked Yes Daddy audio has finished Peter Obi’s political career at the federal level forever. His religious war comments against the Muslim Ummah will not be forgotten. Core Northern Muslims are not as forgetful or have a short attention span as many Southerners.
The fact that we had three major Muslim Presidential candidates (Atiku, Tinubu, and Kwankwaso) and only one major Christian candidate (Peter Obi), yet a Muslim won, and another Muslim came second, is proof positive that Muslims have a higher population than Christians in Nigeria. I know it is not what you want to hear. However, the truth is bitter but better.
And if the Labour Party do not realise this, they will only play into the hands of the All Progressives Congress by dividing opposition votes in 2027. Trader sense is not the same as the intelligence of a leader. To succeed in politics, you must be willing to work with even those you do not like, for a goal you like.
Oya, insult!