It is unwise for Labour Party to rejects Atiku's merger - Reno Omokri

A Chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Reno Omokri has tackled the Labour Party for rejecting Atiku Abubakar's proposal for all opposition parties to merge.

On Tuesday, November 14, the PDP’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, suggested that opposition parties need to merge to defeat the ruling APC in the next presidential poll.

The Labour Party spokesman, Obiora Ifoh in response said in a statement on Thursday that the party has not discussed any merger and that Atiku's call “was only a proposal and every Nigerian should be interested in making democracy work in Nigeria and that what we have presently is an autocracy.

“There was nowhere in the response that the purported merger between LP and PDP was mentioned,” Ifoh emphasised.

Recall that both the Labour Party and the PDP lost the 2023 presidential election to the All Progressives Congress by coming second and third respectively.

Reacting to the Labour Party's response, Omokri said it was unwise to reject Atiku's merger proposition.

He said;

"It is incredibly unwise for the Labour Party to reject Waziri Atiku Abubakar's call for a merger between them and the Peoples Democratic Party. Especially after the results of the Imo, Kogi and Bayelsa elections. Execute your politics with logic and strategic thinking, not emotion and erratic mentality.

If a united opposition could not defeat the All Progressives Congress in 2019, it only follows that it will hardly pull it off in 2023 and 2027. That is just pure common sense.

In Nigeria's history, only a coalition or merger of parties has been able to take power from the colonialists, the military, or the party in power. So, learn from history or prepare to be history.

Whichever party features Peter Obi in 2027, whether as a Presidential candidate or running mate, will lose. The leaked Yes Daddy audio has finished Peter Obi's political career at the federal level forever. His religious war comments against the Muslim Ummah will not be forgotten. Core Northern Muslims are not as forgetful or have a short attention span as many Southerners.

The fact that we had three major Muslim Presidential candidates (Atiku, Tinubu, and Kwankwaso) and only one major Christian candidate (Peter Obi), yet a Muslim won, and another Muslim came second, is proof positive that Muslims have a higher population than Christians in Nigeria. I know it is not what you want to hear. However, the truth is bitter but better.

And if the Labour Party do not realise this, they will only play into the hands of the All Progressives Congress by dividing opposition votes in 2027. Trader sense is not the same as the intelligence of a leader. To succeed in politics, you must be willing to work with even those you do not like, for a goal you like.

Oya, insult!