PDP Govs Deny Supporting El-Rufai-Obi Ticket For 2027

State governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have denied that five of their members were supporting a Nasir El-Rufai and Peter Obi presidential ticket ahead of 2027.

The governors, under the aegis of PDP Governors’ Forum, said they would support whoever emerges as the party’s flag-bearer.

Director general of the forum, Dr. Emmanuel Agbo, who stated this, noted that rumours and speculations were common in politics.

He added that the governors would not allow ‘enemies of progress’ and ‘agents of confusion’ to gaslight Nigerians to draw erroneous conclusions.

Agbo said; “The PDP Governors’ Forum is not in consonance with these actors, neither does it enjoy any ambience of political space to discuss nor seal the auction of the PDP through lowlife grifters who are allegedly working behind the scenes to support a “potential Nasir El-Rufai/Peter Obi presidential ticket in the 2027 election.”

He added that all organs of the PDP were engaged in reconciliation efforts across and to reconsolidate progressive developments made in the subnational to ameliorate the living condition of the people.

“It is obvious that these mischief makers and detractors, who are bewildered at the way and manner PDP governors are daily performing to pull the people out of economic hardship despite the intimidation by the ruling APC, are only intimidated and can only throw mud at our good works,” he said.

He added that those that were unsatisfied with the results their clones had gotten in the low-willed factions they keep financing within the party structure, had proceeded with direct confrontation on the governors towards creating a one-party entrapment.

He said the intention was to split the opposition and cripple democratic institutions and values through questionable adoptions and misinterpretation of the law, all to strangle the lifeline of the nation to enforce dictatorship and one-party rule.

“Our principles are for equity, social justice, sincerity of purpose, accountability, enthronement of undefiled electoral process, enhancement of the lives of the people, and propagation of humanity.

“Suffice it for us to irrevocably state here that in 2027, PDP Governors as disciplined leaders and stakeholders will exemplify this by wholeheartedly supporting whoever emerges as the flag-bearer of our great party in the battle to wrestle power from the non-performers at the centre.

“As a creed we all share, the dreams of the founding fathers of our great party will not be in vain,” he said.