Presidential poll: Obi, Kwankwaso’s negotiations dead, says Okupe Kwakwaso And Peter Obi The planned coalition between the Labour Party and the New Nigerian People's Party for the 2023 general election has been declared "dead," according to Dr. Doyin Okupe, Director-General of the Obi Presidential Campaign Organization. The proposal, according to Okupe, who serves as Peter Obi's de facto running partner for the LP presidential nomination and former governor of Anambra State, has been dead for almost four weeks. The LP had intended to form a coalition with the NNPP, with Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, the latter party's presidential candidate, running on the same platform as Obi. On Tuesday night, Okupe revealed during an appearance on Channels Television's Politics Today that the negotiation stalled when the LP side questioned the election of a second Muslim northerner succeeding the president, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd). Senator Ditti Baba-Ahmed is re...
