Labour party is seeking alliance with Kwankwaso - Doyin Okupe

Doyin Okupe, Director General of the Labour Party (LP) Presidential Campaign Council, says the party is still in talks with the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) presidential candidate Rabiu Kwankwaso and others about forming an alliance.

Earlier this year, there were reports that Kwankwaso and Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi were discussing a possible alliance. The move, however, did not take place.

Nonetheless, Okupe stated that the LP is still seeking an alliance with Kwankwaso and other parties.

“As a party, at our own campaign level, we are talking to SDP; we are talking to even Kwankwaso and his team again. We are talking to PRP and ADC,” he said on Channels Television’s program.

“I believe and I trust that God will help us that between now and December, we would bring together that alignment politically in the country and the country would be better for it.”

According to him, the move is intended to ensure that “whoever wins does not just win on a single effort; we win with the cooperation of as many groups as possible.”

He also dismissed criticisms of Obi’s visits to some power brokers in the country, claiming that they were only intended to “carry everybody along” in the grand scheme of things.

“Somebody won an election in this country, he did not rule. He was loved by Nigerians but some stakeholders stopped that. We have to avoid that by carrying everybody along, “Okupe added.

“Even if they don’t agree with us initially, let them not oppose us; let them not see us as enemies. We are not enemies of anybody, a group, or any part of the country. We are just a sect of people who mean well for the country.”