Paul Obi x-rays the political undercurrents in APC, Wike-PDP, NDC and ADC ahead of the 2027 presidential election
About the twilight of 2022, when the All Progressives Congress (APC) were on the verge of conjuring who flies the party’s presidential ticket, and then President Muhammadu Buhari’s handlers were shopping for a presidential candidate outside of Bola Ahmed Tinubu, – the calculations for both the APC and the then opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) were already in top gear. In APC: Buhari’s men were zeroing in on then Senate President, Ahmad Lawan.
The Tinubu’s camp had two options – work hard to get the ticket and if it failed, disrupt APC at the presidential polls by supporting a southern candidate. In PDP, the juggernauts led by then party’s National Chairman, Senator Iyorchia Ayu not only underestimated Peter Obi, they clandestinely etched him out from the vice presidential candidacy, while boasting that Atiku Abubakar already had 11 million votes in his pocket.
What were the outcomes of the above politicking? Before the Buhari’s handlers knew it, Tinubu had infiltrated all the party apparatchiks, including state institutions.
In PDP, Obi sensing the betrayal and the naked marginalisation of the South-east, shipped to unknown Labour Party.
