Segun Sowunmi, a member of the People Democratic Party (PDP), has counselled the party to make every effort to get Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s presidential candidate for the 2023 election back into the PDP.
Sowunmi offered the counsel on Friday while featuring “Politics Today” on Channels Television.
According to the reports, Obi defected from the PDP to the Labour Party in May 2022 after allegedly protesting about widespread vote buying and delegates being bought off during the party’s presidential primaries.
‘’One of the people who was a PDP member, a South eastern man who felt based on the balance of play that the South-East was excluded, Peter Obi, was allocated 6.2 million votes, you lose the election, you run to the Supreme Court you lose, at least you were adjudged to have lost.
“Any deep-thinking, fair-minded Nigerian man who is in the political party called the PDP ought to know that the greatest, necessary next step is to have the conversation about: ‘How do you bring Peter back’ now that the energy driving him is organic,’’ Sowunmi said.
Recall that the PDP ha been wrapped up in crisis following multiple defections across its different chapters.
According to Sowunmi, the internal strife and the abrupt increase in defections to the All Progressives Congress (APC) are self-inflicted and ought to have been resolved some time ago.
“There is a level of activity that you can blame your bullies for, but there is a certain level of recurring, continuous lack of creativity that you have you have to hold yourself responsible for.
“One of the things that people do is fall prey to the frail nature of President Bola Tinubu. I know him for his intellectual capacity. He will look frail, but his brain is that of a giant, so most times people underestimate him to their own peril.
‘’The painful thing is that my own side is choosing to pretend that it is an easy material to defeat in politics. What do they know that he doesn’t know?” he asked.
