Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia
Presidential flag bearer of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, and former Governor of Kano State, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, Saturday, confirmed that his party was in talks with Labour Party and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, for a possible joint ticket.
The former Governor who confirmed this in an interview with BBC Hausa Service said both parties had met over the matter.
Kwankwaso expressed optimism that the talks would soon materialise.
According to him: “We are really talking to Peter Obi, or at least saying that the committee is working to look into the matter (and cooperate with him), and friends and family are coming to talk to us about it.”
Both NNPP and the Labour Party have continued to witness more followership since the emergence of Kwankwaso, and Obi as flag bearers respectively.
Although the Director General of Obi’s Campaign Organisation, Dr. Doyin Okupe, on Friday, claimed he was Obi’s running mate, it is believed to be in a holding capacity as a substantive running mate is expected at the end of the merger of both parties.
