Former presidential adviser, Barrister Okoi Obono-Obla has called on the Labour Party (LP) and the New Nigeria Democratic Party (NNDP) to form a merger to enable them to build a formidable force to challenge the two main political parties in Nigeria.
Obono-obla noted that Labour Party and NNDP would have posed a threat to the All Progressives Congress (APC) and People Democratic Party (PDP) but that they are nascent and struggling.
He, however, said it appears too late for the two opposition parties to do that and achieve anything good in the forthcoming general elections.
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In a statement issued Friday in his hometown, Ugep, Cross River State, the former presidential aide recalled that “It took the defunct CPC, ACN, and ANPP years of meticulous planning, financial commitments, concessions, and compromises to become a single political party.”
He noted that: “They need to merge or align to be able to give PDP and APC a run. But the merger or coalition is too late for them because the presidential election of 2023 is looming large,”
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He advised LP and NNDP and smaller political parties to learn from the CPC and ACN experience and begin to lay the foundation for the merger to fight the 2027 presidential election, maintaining that it is APC and PDP that have been able to forge the type of coalition of political forces across Nigeria to win a presidential election.
He further said that the reality in the country today is that “there are no political parties with the strength of the PDP and APC. “
