Former National Chairma of All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, Victor Umeh, said yesterday that the coalition talks between the Labour Party, LP, and the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, ended on June's 15.

Umeh, who is vying for a senatorial seat on the platform of LP, said the talks “collapsed completely” because both parties could not agree on who will be the presidential candidate.

Speaking in an interview on Channels Television breakfast programme, Sunrise Daily, Umeh faulted the presidential candidate of NNPP, Rabiu Kwankwaso, for giving the impression that the talks between both parties were still in progress.

Umeh, who disclosed that the Labour Party was no longer interested in “every other discussion” with the NNPP, said: “We are surprised at the recent media blaze by the members of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) to continuously suggest that they were locked in a negotiation with the Labour Party to have a partnership or arrangement where the two parties will work together in 2023.

“We are surprised to continuously see this, we had this discussion precisely on June 15, more than three weeks ago. What necessitated the meeting was that the NNPP and LP working together will give a better opportunity for the presidential election to be won. And the two parties set up two teams.

“Myself, Julius Aboreh, the Labour Party chairman who led our team; Doyin Okupe went to that discussion on behalf of the Labour Party; while the NNPP put forward Buba Galadima, Abdullahi Baffa, former executive secretary of TETFUND, and Ladipo Johnson.

“It was a three-man team; we met for long hours, adjourned and we came back. When it became obvious that it had become a dialogue between a deaf and dumb person, we called off the negotiation.[b]

[b]LP may pick Senator Baba Ahmed as Obi’s running mate

Also, the Labour Party temporary Vice Presidential Candidate, Dr Doyin Okupe, said the LP/NNPP alliance talks had collapsed.

Speaking on Channels Television Politics Today programme, yesterday, Okupe said the merger failed because Kwankwaso of the NNPP insisted on being the presidential flagbearer, even when a Northern Muslim of same North-West geo-political zone, President Muhammadu Buhari, is about to complete eight years in office.

He said during coalition talks he had asked the NNPP leadership if it was fair to field Kwankwaso, a northerner, of which the NNPP leadership said there was nothing wrong with that.

Okupe revealed that LP is now looking at young running mate of northern extraction.

Vanguard gathered yesterday that Senator Datti Baba Ahmed, 46, from Kaduna State may be picked as Obi’s running mate.

Senator Ahmed, who has four degrees including a PhD was a member of the House of Representatives (2003 and 2007), and was elected Senator (Kaduna North) in 2011 on the platform of the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC. He is the founder and pro-Chancellor of Baze University.

onatisi:
so you think peter obi is bigger kwankwanso in the scheme of Nigeria's national politics?
any party that will eventually win the presidency will have to at one point either an alliance with kankwanso , no one will even bother to look at the side of peter obi , but no need to argue about it , time will tell.

all these peter obi noise will soon die down ,just wait and see .

Vulturereloaded:
Shameless Victor umeh, trying to use Obi to become relevant.

Vulturereloaded:
Shameless Victor umeh, trying to use Obi to become relevant.

BluntCrazeMan:
Ok Naa.
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MEANWHILE...
GO AND VERIFY.
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Two men were governors: one in Lagos, the other in Anambra.
Towards the end of their second term, the one in Lagos sent his retirement bill and got his house of assembly to approve what you see below as his yearly pension.

1. 300% annual salary as severance package as approved by RMAFAC.
2. 100% of annual basic salary of incumbent gov as salary for LIFE even after leaving office.
3. Six new cars every 3 years
4. A new house in Lagos, minimum 5 bedroom
5. A new house in Abuja or any other location, minimum 5 bedroom.
6. Free medical care for him and members of his family for life.
7. Entitled to cooks, stewards, Gardners, and domestic staffs, all pensionable.
8. 300% of his annual basic salary as governor every 2 years as furniture allowance
9. 100% of annual basic salary as governor as his house maintenance allowance
10. Two DSS officers, 1 female officer for his wife and eight policemen to guard him.
11. 25% of his annual basic salary for personal assistants.
12. 30% of his annual basic salary for car maintenance .
13. 20% of his annual basic salary as utilities maintenance.
14. Pensionable drivers, no limits to the number.

(This is apart from what he gets as a percentage of collections from the firm - Alpha Beta - which collects tax for Lagos State, and the total control he has over the governors and the treasury.)
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But See what Peter Obi collects from Anambra State since leaving office as governor:

1. No gratuity
2. No pensions
3. No houses
4. No cars
5. No allowances of any kind
6. No maintenances of any kind.
7. No personal assistants paid by the state.
8. No domestic staffs paid by the state.
9. No aids sponsored by the state.
10. Not even pure water.
11. No shishi from the State.

Now the two men want to be president.

So choose you today who means well for Nigeria and who will serve the people selflessly.

I am just exposing your mind to see the truth.
It is now your decision to make and convince others.
Use your reasoning..
Vote and support wisely….

Moferere:
In conclusion, Peter is not coming!

Illiterate Peoples of Biafra will soon resume their Biafra agitation.

otipoju:
I like the way Okupe was emphatically unequivocal in stating that the proposal was dead.

It died the moment they tried to justify that it did not matter that a northerner from the same geopolitical zone as the outgoing president could succeed him over a region that had not produced even a vice president in the modern democratic era.

Labour party quickly moved on. No time to check time. Kwankwaso greed cost him an easy shot at the presidency after Peter Obi.

Make Kwankwaso come test him popularity for national level, make we see.

He will split northern votes with Atiku and Tinubu.
Obi will clear the whole of south south and south east, win Lagos and Ondo in the west and the whole of the christian middle belt.

I count 19 states for Labour Party.

PlayerMeji:
Automatically, Kwankwanso is an enemy to usnow...

He must be derided for as long as we can now.

In fact, Kwankwanso is very corrupt, he is the worst of them all....

Witness the average mindset of a Peter Obi Zombie!

omowumi9:



It is good to have high hopes. It keeps body and soul alive. Wait till the reality is dawn on you. In the meantime,enjoy your fantasy . The key to Aso Rock has been passed to the next President. If you know you know

Biafranodogwu55:
This kwankwaso sefh...

How him think say PO left pdp just to agree to become his VP

Very selfish notherners

PlayerMeji:
Automatically, Kwankwanso is an enemy to usnow...

He must be derided for as long as we can now.

In fact, Kwankwanso is very corrupt, he is the worst of them all....

Witness the average mindset of a Peter Obi Zombie!

Biafranodogwu55:
This kwankwaso sefh...

How him think say PO left pdp just to agree to become his VP

Very selfish notherners