A respected chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and former Minister of Information, Prof. Jerry Gana, has said that Peter Obi under PDP platform would defeat any candidate in the North in the 2027 presidential election.
Gana said this during an interview on Arise TV’s Prime Time on Wednesday night.
This comes as efforts are still ongoing to bring Obi back to the PDP.
Obi, who was the Labour Party’s presidential candidate in the 2023 elections, left the PDP in May 2022, and is currently hobnobbing with the new coalition, ADC.
“The PDP is on the ground. I’m a researcher, and I research opinions. In the northern states, Peter Obi under the PDP will defeat any candidate because our people are very fair-minded and just.
“We are reaching out to Peter Obi. Because I’m leading a search team and there are many brilliant people, Peter may be good, but we have somebody better. So, we are searching,” Gana said.
He however admitted that the PDP mishandled Obi’s exit from the party ahead of the 2023 elections.
“We made a mistake in 2023. If I were Atiku, I would say, ‘Peter, it is now your turn; I would give you a vice-president,’ but he didn’t,” he said.
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