Labour Party presidential candidate in the 2023 elections, Peter Obi has poured cold water on reports that he has formed an alliance with Peoples Democratic Party candidate, Abubakar Atiku.
There were reports that former President Olusegun Obasanjo had brokered a deal between Obi and Atiku during a flurry of political meeting in London last week. But the Obi-Datti campaign group said in a statement on Saturday, that there was no such move on the agenda.
“Rather than strive to contend with the hard sell of their candidates, these mischief makers bandy about misleading accounts of the issue-based messages of our candidates just to score cheap political points and thus distract the discerning public.
“While we understand the frustration of dealing in their hard-to-sell, “expired milk” [apologies to BAT] in a competitive market, the Fair Play rule demands that you don’t associate the good with the bad product. We demand honour even among thieves!
“We know the intention of the spin-doctors in selling an utterly false story that the high-flying Labour Party candidate, Peter Obi, met with his PDP counterpart and reached a deal. Nothing can be further from the truth.”
Peter Obi, Olusegun Obasanjo and Ahmed Datti.