Last Sunday, former Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, paid a Sallah visit to the leader of the Kwankwasiyya Movement, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso in Kano State.
According to a post shared on X by Dr Yunusa Tanko, Coordinator of the Obidient Movement, following Obi’s meeting with Kwankwaso, the engagement focused on “strategising for our collective interest to make Nigeria work again for all of us”.
The visit has stirred fresh speculation about a possible alliance between two men whose separate ambitions in 2023 may have cost them a collective opportunity.
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It has been recall that at the backdrop to this renewed engagement is the failed alliance talks prior to the last presidential election in 2023.
Many analysts are of the view that the meeting was a reminder of unfinished business, and perhaps, a quiet restart of conversations that once failed to materialise.
It was stated that prior to the last presidential election, both Obi and Kwankwaso were riding waves of political momentum: Obi with his youth-driven “Obidient” movement under the Labour Party, and Kwankwaso with the deeply rooted Kwankwasiyya base under the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, particularly in Northern Nigeria.
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However, negotiations between the two camps reportedly broke down over disagreements on power-sharing, party supremacy, and ultimately, who would take the presidential ticket. What could have become a formidable third force instead splintered into parallel campaigns.
Moreover it was also reported how both men contested separately, splitting opposition votes in a tightly contested election in which President Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress emerged winner.
Many Nigerians have since argued that a united front might have significantly altered the outcome.
