2023: Peter Obi has no deal with Atiku — Okupe

The Director-General of the Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Organisation, Doyin Okupe, has debunked the reports making the rounds that the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has formed an alliance with the presidential standard-bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, ahead of the 2023 general election.

Okupe, in a statement issued and made available to The Star on Wednesday, said Obi would never negotiate with other presidential candidates ahead of the next year’s presidential election.

The former presidential spokesman stated: “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 candidates or their parties.

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“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 a 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 and hand it over to the Nigerian Youths, to secure their collective Destiny.

“Our compelling commitment and promise is to move Nigeria from consumption to production and so help us God,” Okupe said.

The Star