The presidential candidate of the Labour Party(LP) in the 2023 general elections, Peter Obi, on Thursday held a closed door meeting with former President Goodluck Jonathan in Abuja on national issues.
TheNewsGuru.com(TNG) reports that Obi via his official X handle disclosed this, afterwhich hailed Jonathan as a respected statesman and elder.
“Today in Abuja, I met with my very dear elder brother, statesman, and leader, former President Goodluck Jonathan. We had a fruitful closed-door meeting and discussed the state of our dear nation,” Obi wrote.
Although, neither Jonathan nor Obi gave further details of their discussion, the timing of the meeting comes amidst rumours that Jonathan ,who led Nigeria between 2010 and 2015, is considering running for the 2027 presidency.
Supporters of Jonathan, according to earlier reports have begun reaching out to opposition heavyweights, including Labour Party’s Peter Obi, in a bid to form a grand coalition strong enough to challenge the All Progressives Congress (APC) and President Bola Tinubu , ahead of the 2027 presidential election.
With the APC hierarchy already backing Tinubu for re-election, and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) zoning its presidential ticket to the South, the 2027 contest is shaping into an all-Southern affair.
Party insiders who spoke with Vanguard said top PDP leaders, particularly from the North, have been mounting pressure on Jonathan to throw his hat into the ring.
Before Jonathan’s name resurfaced, several PDP bigwigs had also courted Obi to return to the fold after his 2022 defection to the LP, where he emerged as presidential flagbearer.
Obi, who has remained one of the fiercest critics of the Tinubu administration, is also backing the African Democratic Congress (ADC) coalition, which parades several prominent figures, including former Rivers State governor, Rotimi Amaechi, former Senate President, David Mark, former Osun State governor, Rauf Aregbesola and former Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai.
Asked repeatedly whether he would rejoin the PDP or align with the ADC, Obi maintained that he was committed to “any move that will save the country from the APC