Atiku aims at alliance with Obi, Kwankwaso against Tinubu
Abubakar Atiku, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, says he is in talks with two other leading presidential contenders: Rabiu Kwankwaso and Peter Obi.
The attempted alliance is definitely aimed at rooting another major candidate Bola Tinubu at the polls.
In an interview with the BBC Hausa Service, Atiku said he didn’t attempt the alliance because he saw Kwankwaso and Obi as a threat to his presidential ambition. He also believes the talks could be positive.
“Although, I see no threat in any of them but we are in talks, and the discussion might yield a positive result that will see one of them coming.”
On his lingering faceoff with the five governors belonging to the PDP, Atiku said optimistically that their disagreement could be over soon.
He said, “Each party has its internal crisis, we are still talking with them. Most are neither in PDP nor in other parties and definitely that will not make us lose the election because we are okay with the election preparations for now.
“Election now is not like in the past when a governor will dictate who to vote for, election today is in the hands of the voters.”
TheCornet reports that Kwankwaso, the presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), had made futile effort to broker an alliance with Obi.
While speaking at the Chatham House in London recently, Kwankwaso said the media frenzy around Obi stalled the effort.
It is therefore to be seen how Atiku would get either to jettison his ambition to support his, only few weeks to the presidential race.
