By Suleiman Anyalewechi
The remnants of the dismembered Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Friday, August 8, 2025, intensified their efforts to woo back the 2023 Labour Party Presidential Candidate, Peter Obi, to the Party’s fold.
The Source reports that the former Anambra State Governor who ran as Atiku Abubakar’s running mate at the 2019 Presidential Polls, exited the PDP shortly before its Presidential primaries in 2023.
He subsequently pitched tent with the LP under which he ran for the presidential seat.
However, since being identified with the nascent opposition Coalition platform, the African Democratic Congress ADC, with its promising potentials, the PDP which has since relapsed into a comatose State has been trying to bring Obi back before the 2027 General Elections.
Joining the ranks of several chieftains who had separately and collectively urged Obi to return, the Chairman of the PDP Governors Forum/Governor of Bauchi State, Bala Muhammed, on Friday, passionately pleaded with him to consider returning back to the party.
Speaking while receiving Obi at the Government House Bauchi, Governor Muhammed noted that going by the prevailing realities on the ground in the country, overwhelming majority of Nigerian are nursing great expectations as the 2027 general elections draw close.
He specifically appealed to Obi to rejoin the PDP so as to work in concert with others to liberate the country and its people from the present excruciating difficulties.
“There is a lot of hunger and anger in the land. We don’t want to cause so many disparaging movements. So, please come back. PDP is where you belong . Don’t go anywhere that is in disarray” Governor Muhammed pleaded.
Further speaking, he reassured Obi and his followers -the Obidient movement – of the readiness of the PDP to work in concert with them in achieving the set goals of setting the people free.
“I can assure you that we we will work to harmonize our interests in the overall good of the people of Nigeria.
“The opposition must come together. The ADC, PDP and even all the other parties should come together.
“Let it be known that we don’t hate the present administration. However, I wish they would change and do better. But as at the moment, the present Federal Government has just implemented about 30% of the 2024 budget, while that of the 2025 is yet to commence, almost, towards the end of the year.
“There is no plan in place to attend to the situation in the country. Rather, all they are concerned about is politics .
“We have to be cautious not to disparage our people. We have to unite the opposition, our ego and our interests so that we can present a common front to compete and to make sure that we get to the promised land”, Muhammed stated.
Obi informed that he was in the State to interact with the youths in the State’s Colleges of Health ,and Almajiris.
He expressed satisfaction with the great potentials of the youths who he described as the future leaders of the country.
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