A pro-PDP group, Bala Agents’ Mandate, has urged former Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi and former Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi to return to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and join forces with Bauchi State Governor Bala Mohammed to rebuild a strong and united opposition.
The State Coordinator of the group, Amadi Chijioke, made the call at a press briefing in Port Harcourt on Monday .
Chijioke advised both men to shelve plans of forming a new opposition coalition, stressing that such a move would only weaken the fight to rescue Nigeria from alleged misrule and democratic backsliding.
“I strongly believe in the leadership of Bala Mohammed to lead the PDP to glory. I don’t think there is any need to bring Atiku Abubakar and others together to form a new coalition. I believe they should come back home PDP is home.
“The likes of Peter Obi, the likes of Chibuike Amaechi I am expecting these men to return and join Bala Mohammed in rebuilding the PDP, because right now, he is appearing alone in the system,” he said.
Chijioke expressed confidence in Governor Mohammed’s leadership to lead the PDP to glory and called on Amaechi and Obi to join him in rebuilding the party.
The group’s National Coordinator, Habib Musa, commended the PDP Governors’ Forum led by Governor Mohammed as a symbol of unity and accountability amidst rising political uncertainties.
Musa described the Forum as the most formidable and credible structure currently holding the party together.
Musa faulted the recent defections of the governors of Delta and Akwa Ibom States to the All Progressives Congress (APC), describing them as driven by fear and opportunism rather than ideology or principle.
He assured that the PDP remained a formidable force and will reclaim the governments of those states through the ballot box.
Musa urged Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Nyesom Wike to close ranks with Governor Mohammed and work for the unity of the PDP, despite his current role in the APC-led federal government.
