Politics
PDP Plans Strategic Talks With Obi, Atiku to Rebuild Influence
PDP talks with Obi and Atiku as party leaders intensify consultations to rebuild national influence ahead of future elections
The Peoples Democratic Party South-South Chairman, Emmanuel Ogidi, on Wednesday in Abuja, announced that the party will hold high-level consultations with former presidential candidate Peter Obi and former Vice President Atiku Abubakar as part of efforts to restore its national relevance.
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Emmanuel Ogidi disclosed the plan while speaking on the Morning Brief programme on Channels Television, where he described the engagements as strategic moves to reposition the opposition party.
According to Ogidi, the consultations form part of a broader outreach to influential political figures across the country.
He said the party had already met with former President Olusegun Obasanjo and former military leader Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, stressing that the discussions were meant to signal that the party was regaining momentum.
Ogidi confirmed that meetings with Peter Obi and Atiku Abubakar, both former members of the party, were next on the agenda.
He said Atiku Abubakar’s status as a former vice president made him a critical stakeholder, adding that the PDP remained committed to engaging all key democratic actors.
Peter Obi and Atiku Abubakar were both prominent standard-bearers of the PDP in previous elections, serving as vice-presidential and presidential candidates respectively in 2019.
Atiku also flew the party’s flag in the 2023 presidential election before both politicians later aligned with the African Democratic Congress.
Meanwhile, the PDP National Working Committee on Tuesday met with former President Goodluck Jonathan at his office in Maitama, Abuja.
The delegation, led by National Chairman Tanimu Turaki, said Jonathan reaffirmed his loyalty to the party and pledged continued support ahead of forthcoming off-season elections and the 2027 general polls.
The consultations come amid a deepening internal crisis within the PDP following its defeat in the 2023 general elections.
The party, which governed Nigeria from 1999 to 2015, is currently split into rival factions claiming control of the national leadership after a contentious convention in Ibadan, Oyo State, where several senior figures were expelled.
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Party leaders believe the renewed dialogue with influential former members could prove decisive in stabilising the PDP and rebuilding its electoral strength.
A group, the Imo First Group (IFG) has described the purported Magistrate court order to arrest Senator Ifeanyi Araraume and the former governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, over alleged criminal conspiracy and forgery, as a ruse and fake news
The group stated this in a statement issued on Saturday in Abuja.
IFG challenged those peddling the fake news to make the court order public.
The statement reads ” The fabricated and concocted story was first posted on social media by Hon. Ambrose Nwaogwugwu, a media aide to Governor Hope Uzodimma, before it was picked up by other media outfits, including Arise TV.
According to the statement, those behind the report claimed that a Senior Magistrate Court sitting in Abuja issued a Bench Warrant dated September 9, 2026, following a petition written by the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Imo State, Barr. Chukwuemeka Ibejiako, to the Police and DSS on October 8, 2026, over alleged presentation of fake APC primary results.
The Group debunked the existence of any such order.
“We want to state categorically and unequivocally that no jSenior Magistrate ordered or issued any bench warrant for the arrest of Araraume”
IFG however challenged anyone in possession of the purported court order to publish it.
“If you claim to have a court order present same for the public to see,
“This fabricated bench warrant contain in the report is filled with inconsistencies, the bench warrant was dated September 9, 2026, while the REC’s petition that supposedly triggered it was dated October 8, 2026, with case number CR/M/084/2026.
The statement further stated that the purveyors and harbinger of the fake news tried to trick the magistrate via exparte order but was rebuked
“The magistrate bluntly refused to grant their exparte and threatened to arrest them, yet they carried their falsehood about. What’s the problem of occupants of office that never won free and fair elections and tried to destroy reputable Imo sons that have won elections. We challenge anyone in this macabre surugede dance to show the court order or warrant of arrest. It’s preposterous to blackmail decent Imo sons on the altar of dirty politics.”
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