The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has revealed that candidates from three major opposition parties in Nigeria are considering forming a merger to unseat the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the upcoming 2027 general elections.
This information was disclosed by Ibrahim Abdullahi, the spokesman for the PDP, during an interview with Channels Television on Monday, September 2.
Abdullahi mentioned that the three opposition candidates from the last presidential election—Atiku Abubakar of the PDP, Peter Obi of the Labour Party, and Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP)—are willing to put aside personal interests to collaborate in a bid to defeat the ruling APC and President Bola Tinubu in 2027.
He noted that if the PDP’s previous leadership had effectively managed internal conflicts, key figures like former Rivers State governor Nyesom Wike, Kwankwaso, and Peter Obi would still be part of the PDP, which he believes would have led to a victory over Bola Tinubu in the last election.
When asked if the PDP was making efforts to bring Obi, Kwankwaso, Wike, and others back into the party, Abdullahi responded: “We’ve lost Kwankwaso, we’ve lost Peter Obi, all of these people. Imagine if they were in the party, we would have gone to win the elections.
“This APC said they defeated us with one million plus (votes); just one of these names that I mentioned would have covered that gap for us, and we would have been in power today. Certainly, Nigerians would not have been confronted with this despair and despondency in the land.
“Sure, discussions are ongoing. You will see Peter Obi discussing with Atiku, you will see Peter Obi meeting with (Nasir) El-Rufai. Party management is a very difficult thing, and we are doing our best in the quagmire that we have found ourselves. Rest assured, there will be light at the end of the tunnel. We have bitterly learned our lessons.
‘’One of them would concede for the other, and then we would have a direction. Our concern as a party, and to these people that I have mentioned, is to ensure that we salvage Nigerians from this despair and despondency, from the maladies of hunger and frightening insecurity in the land. You can see cluelessness and ineptitude on the part of those managing this country.”
