The 2023 Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, held a closed-door meeting with the Governor of Bauchi State, Bala Mohammed, at the Ramat House in Bauchi State on Thursday.
The purpose of the visit has not yet been disclosed. Both Obi and Mohammed are engaged in closed-door discussions and are expected to address journalists after the meeting.
The meeting between the Labour Party (LP) chieftain and the Peoples Democratic Party stalwart occurred amid political permutations ahead of the 2027 general elections.
Obi came third in the 2023 presidential election won by ex-Lagos governor Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Tinubu came out tops in 12 of Nigeria’s 36 states, and secured significant numbers in several other states to claim the highest number of votes — 8,794,726, almost two million votes more than his closest rival — former Vice President Atiku Abubakar of the PDP.
Abubakar, who has now run for president six times, got 6,984,520 votes, while LP’s Obi, who, in less than a year, galvanised young voters in a manner some have described as unprecedented finished the race with 6,101,533.
Obi, a former governor of Anambra State, won the polls in 11 states, including the home state of the APC candidate — Lagos. He also came out tops in the nation’s capital Abuja. Abubakar, like Tinubu, was victorious in 12 states.
