Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s (LP) nominee for president, met with Goodluck’ Jonathan on Friday at his Yenagoa home in Bayelsa State. As of the publication of this article on Friday night, Obi and Jonathan were having a private discussion about the LP candidate’s presidential campaign for the 2023 elections.
Goodluck’ Jonathan claims that Nigeria is deeply divided. He advised Obi that if he wins, bringing Nigeria together must be his top priority.
The former president also praised the presidential candidate for making the audacious decision to run for office outside of the two major parties in 2018. Yusuf Baba-Ahmed, Obi’s running companion, was beside him, along with party veterans.
Olusegun Obasanjo, a former president, has also endorsed Obi. He met with the 85-year-old statesman on September 26.
On October 14, Obasanjo stirred up conversation once more when he was seen giving the LP candidate his place at a gathering. The former president can be seen calling up Obi, who is seated at table 9, and escorting him to table one in the viral footage. The audience claps in approval of the action.
In September, the LP candidate alongside his running mate visited former military presidents, General Abdulsalami Abubakar and General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida (IBB).
“It was a pleasure and honour for me and my running mate, Dr Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, to be hosted by Nigeria’s military president, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, GCFR, at his home in Minna today,” Obi said in a Facebook post.
A renowned Governor Ortom noted that Obi has the capacity to liberate Nigeria from economic and security challenges.
He said, “If Nigeria needs to make a choice, you are one of the finest candidates that we have in this country. In terms of education, in terms of character, in terms of performance, in terms of reaching out, in terms of being a pan-Nigerian, in terms of industrialisation, passion to ensure that our country is liberated from where we are; out of insecurity to security, and out of economic woes to economic vibrancy and out of lack to adequate social life, you have the capacity to make things work.”
