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A former presidential aide, Reno Omokri said the presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, Nigeria Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, Rabiu Kankwaso and the former Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State will not agree to contest the presidency with Peter Obi in 2027.
Omokri stated this in a statement via his X handle on Wednesday.
Recall that Obi met with Atiku, former Senate President Bukola Saraki, and Sule Lamido, a former governor of Jigawa from 2007 to 2015, in Abuja on Tuesday.
The meeting was the first between the two politicians since the end of the general elections last year.
The details of the meeting were not immediately known.
But, Omokri said no northerner of standing and in his right senses would agree to run for the 2027 presidency with the former Anambra State governor.
Omokri wondered about the significance of Obi’s rapprochement with Northern powerbrokers in the PDP, stressing that “right now he is tainted.”
He said, “Have you forgotten about Deborah Samuel? Of course not. The memory is still fresh in your mind, primarily because you are a Christian and you empathise with her, seeing as she was killed by a core Northern Muslim mob on charges of blasphemy.
“Now, perform this emotional intelligence exercise. If you cannot and will not forget Deborah Samuel, how do you think any Muslim, Northern or Southern, is going to forget a man who was caught on tape plotting religious war against you? How?
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