The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi in the 2023 general election on Saturday met with the former governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, in the United States (US).
TheNewsGuru reports that the duo met during the 11th Annual Cambridge Africa Together Conference held at St. John’s College, University of Cambridge.
The former Kaduna governor was among the speakers at the conference, which convenes African leaders, scholars, and innovators.
Obi represented the Labour Party in the previous presidential election, El-Rufai, who recently defected from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to the Social Democratic Party, is thought to be politically aligned with former Vice President Atiku Abubakar.
Both politicians collaborated with Atiku Abubakar to announce the establishment of an opposition coalition aimed at ousting the incumbent administration led by President Bola Tinubu from office in 2023.
Following this announcement, many speculate that the coalition will operate under the SDP platform, with El-Rufai being referred to as Atiku’s placeholder within the SDP.
Following the new development, Nigerians, have taken to social media platform to react to the meeting, while some saw the move as a welcome development, others, had their reservations.
one user commented, “If this two can come together, trust me Tinubu go cry.”
_great.theman wrote: “Anything to remove APC, I don’t care, just do it!.”
norah_pimiento wrote: “May this discussion lead to a better Nigeria, amin.”
abdomiloose wrote: ‘‘But Erufai na bad man considering the numbers of Christian’s that died under his government as a governor. We can’t trust him.”
urchywar wrote: “Let me break it down for y’all, El-Rufai is working for BAT 2027 re-election, with the promise of being the FCT minister if BAT wins, these are simply political strategies to distract the opposition, BAT won’t be needing WIKE in 2027 as SIM is set to defect to APC. If you play Chess ♟️ you will understand politics. Ire ooo.”
taymi_j wrote: ”Omo as Tunde wey dey Yankee carry betterment of naija matter for head just dey sweet me.”
olayimika10__ wrote: ”In as much he’s with Peter Obi now, he’s no more a bad person . Double standard people.”
viks_vico wrote: ”I would love to see the both of them joining together and forming alliance together, 2027 election would be tougher and Sir Peter Obi needs someone like Sir El rufai to contest for presidential election. Me I would come out and vote for both of them. Then for Abia state I would vote for Alex otti.”