Presidential hopeful Peter Obi will not get the support of northern voters in the 2027 election, according to Datti Baba-Ahmed, who served as his running mate during the 2023 presidential election.
Baba-Ahmed made this remark during a recent media interview, insisting that he still maintains a cordial relationship with the former Anambra state governor despite his opinion over his presidential ambition.
The 2023 running mate to Obi former under the Labour Party, LP also made the comment after the former Anambra helmsman joined the National Democratic Congress, NDC from the African Democratic Congress, ADC to pursue his next year’s presidential bid.
The magazine reports that Obi defected alongside a former governor of Kano state, Rabiu Kwankwaso, who’s said to be plotting a joint presidential ticket with the former LP presidential candidate for next year’s election.
The duo now goes with the campaign sobriquet “OK” meaning Obi and Kwankwanso, amidt suggestions by some political analysts that the joint ticket, if well pursued, has the potential to upset the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC and President Bola Ahmed Tinubu apple’s cart in the 2027 presidential election.
The postulations, according to these analysts is that Obi is capable of pulling massive votes from the South with the expectation that Kwankwaso will bring huge votes from the north, enough to defeat the incumbent.
But Baba-Ahmed disagreed, as, according to him, the expectation that the north will support Obi in 2027, may just be a mirage.
The former LP running mate to Obi, however, welcome the idea of a joint ticket of Obi and Kwankwaso, saying he had been advising the former Anambra governor to reach out to the former Kano governor or Nasir El Rufai, a former Governor of Kaduna state to form a joint presidential ticket.
“It is very unlikely that the North will rally around OK. That is my personal opinion,”
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