Amid growing rumours of a possible coalition among opposition leaders to unseat President Bola Tinubu in 2027, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 election, Peter Obi, has said the only coalition he is interested in is the one against hunger, poverty, and the terrible state of healthcare and education in Nigeria.
Obi, who visited the Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Kubwa in Abuja yesterday, emphasised that he was not desperate for any position.
“I am in a coalition against hunger, in the alliance against poverty, in a coalition against a bad state of health. Politics for me is not about position but about doing the right thing.
“In this country, we talk about politics and abandon what we should be talking about. We should be talking about how we will educate the children,” he said.
Obi came third behind President Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 election. Many believe that a coalition between him, Atiku, and other opposition parties will defeat Tinubu in the 2027 presidential election.
The former governor of Anambra State dismissed a deal to run as a vice presidential candidate in 2027, insisting that those saying he had an agreement to deputise anyone were playing politics with selfish ambitions detrimental to the country’s growth.
Obi also made a financial donation to a school project in the diocese.
He said that the church had to bear the enormous burden because the government failed to deliver free and qualitative basic education.
Obi was seen with Kayode Fayemi, a former governor of Ekiti State, exchanging pleasantries with President Tinubu after Pope Leo XIV’s inauguration Mass at the Vatican on Sunday.
Commenting on that, the former Anambra governor said that he was not an enemy of the President and only accorded him the necessary courtesy in Rome as protocol demanded.
He reemphasised that his only enemy is corruption and corrupt leaders who have made life difficult for the Nigerian people.
