Peter Obi Has Not Made Any Deal To Step Down For Atiku Abubakar – Doyin Okupe

Director General of the Obi-Datti Campaign Organisation, Doyin Okupe, has dismissed reports in some quarters that presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, struck a deal with the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) candidate, Atiku Abubakar.

The former media aide to President Obasanjo, in a series of tweets via his Twitter handle on Wednesday, reacted to claims on social media that the LP candidate agreed to collapse his structure for Atiku, with whom he ran as Vice-presidential candidate during the 2019 election.

Recall that Obi met with the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike and former President Olusegun Obasanjo in London, United Kingdom. Incidentally, Wike also met with Atiku and Obasanjo in London at about the same time.

According to the Rivers governor, the meetings which he held with both presidential candidates were in the national interest.

Okupe stated that the Labour Party was gaining momentum with its presidential candidate hence why he can’t ”logically, be negotiating with any other less popular candidate(s) or their parties.”

He wrote; “I hereby categorically refute the false statement, making the rounds, that Peter Obi has made any deal with Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the Presidential candidate of the PDP, with respect to the 2023 Presidential elections.

“By the Grace of God and the massive acceptance and support of the Nigerian people; home and abroad, and especially the youths, OBI IS FAR AHEAD OF ALL OTHER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES IN THE COUNTRY.

“He, therefore, cannot, logically, be negotiating with any other less popular candidate(s) or their parties. Members of the public are hereby advised to ignore this cheap, self-serving and distracting propaganda, which we also believe is not coming from the Atiku camp.

“The train of the OBIdient movement gathers more and more electorates on an hourly basis, while it is evident that the political fortunes and followership of the other parties diminish and recede like a drying lake in the scorching heat of an arid desert. The Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Organisation is focused on our mission which is to TAKE BACK NIGERIA & hand it over to the Nigerian Youths, to secure their collective Destiny”.

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