Peter Obi, the 2023 Labour Party Presidential candidate has ruled out any plan to join other political parties in the country to take over power in the next election.
““I’m not interested in any coalition for purpose of taking power,” Obi declared on Monday in Abuja, the nation’s capital.
The former governor of Anambra state made the declaration in Abuja after attending a two-day National Conference on Strengthening Democracy in Nigeria.
The conference was attended by top opposition leaders in the country.
The conference also comes amidst reports that major opposition parties are planning to form a coalition to dislodged the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.
The magazine reports that a former governor of Kaduna state, Nasir El- Rufai on Monday, urged opposition parties in the country to come together to save the country’s democracy, saying the ruling party has failed the people.
According to Obi, what matters to him as a top opposition party is how to save the country, and not how to take over ‘power.’
He explained that the welfare of Nigerians is currently in uppermost to him, and not the desperation to ‘grab’ power, saying this is “the most important thing for now.”
He said, “I’m not interested in any coalition for purpose of taking power. It is about discussing Nigeria. “How do we care about securing the Nigerians?
“How do we care about the common person in Nigeria?
“How do we care about our children being in school? That is the most important thing for now.”
Not a few Nigerians insist that it will be very difficult for the ruling APC to be dislodge from power in 2027 except the opposition political parties form a united front.
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