By Ayobami Okerinde
A founding member of the Peoples Democratic Social gathering (PDP) and former Minister of Data, Prof. Jerry Gana, has claimed that if Peter Obi returns to the PDP, he’ll defeat any candidate from the North within the 2027 presidential election.
Gana made the declare throughout an interview on Come up TV’s Prime Time on Wednesday, amid ongoing speculations about Obi’s potential return to the PDP regardless of his current engagements with the African Democratic Congress (ADC).
Obi, who was the Labour Social gathering’s presidential candidate within the 2023 elections, left the PDP in Could 2022 to pursue his bid beneath the LP.
“The PDP is on the bottom. I’m a researcher, and I analysis opinions. Within the northern states, Peter Obi beneath the PDP will defeat any candidate as a result of our individuals are very fair-minded and simply,” Gana stated.
He revealed that efforts are nonetheless ongoing to convey Obi again into the PDP fold.
“We’re reaching out to Peter Obi. As a result of I’m main a search workforce and there are numerous good individuals, Peter could also be good, however now we have anyone higher. So, we’re looking,” he stated.
Gana additionally admitted that the PDP mishandled Obi’s exit from the celebration forward of the 2023 elections.
“We made a mistake in 2023. If I had been Atiku, I might say, ‘Peter, it’s now your flip; I might provide you with a vice-president,’ however he didn’t,” he stated.
Talking on the current inner crises inside the celebration, Gana acknowledged they had been largely restricted to “a number of elites in Abuja” and didn’t replicate the temper of the celebration’s broader base throughout the nation.
His phrases“I need to confess that many individuals have forgotten that the PDP was created as a grassroots group.
“In 1998, we had been fashioned after which transferring to the elections in 1999 we had been in each polling unit, as a result of we’re those who actually received the primary election.
“Many individuals have forgotten the PDP received a lot of the native governments, when it got here to the presidential elections, we received the presidency, we received the Senate, we received the Home.
“We had been completely in management, and that’s the reason we had been very delighted that we restored democracy to Nigeria and re-established civil rule.
“As a result of for various years there was navy rule however we efficiently terminated that in a really democratic method, so the PDP was actually because it had been, a grassroots celebration.
“That’s why once we stated ‘energy to the individuals,’ we meant it as a result of that was what it was, and it has been like that.
“So when this current drawback occurred, it was actually amongst a number of elites right here in Abuja. It didn’t even transcend.”
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