‘If he can’t face primaries, he can’t lead Nigeria’ – Bashir Ahmad on Obi’s ‘defection’ to NDC

Bashir Ahmad, a erstwhile media adjutant to precocious ex-President Muhammadu Buhari, has reacted to reports that absorption leaders Peter Obi and Rabi’u Kwankwaso are acceptable to defect from the African Democratic Congress (ADC) to the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC).

In a station connected his X grip connected Saturday, Ahmed said Obi can’t pb Nigeria if they can’t look enactment primaries.

“Reports and indications suggest that Peter Obi and his unsighted supporters are reconsidering different governmental determination distant from their existent platform, the ADC.

“The question present is whether Peter Obi is leaving to flight lasting against different aspirants wrong his party. It is the aforesaid way helium erstwhile embraced successful 2022 starring to 2023 statesmanlike election.

“If governmental fig look truthful acrophobic to trial their popularity wrong their ain enactment structure, it people leads to questions astir however they mean to physique the wide nationalist statement required to pb a state arsenic divers and analyzable arsenic Nigeria.

“Party primaries are a cardinal pillar of democracy, if Peter Obi struggles to vie reasonably among chap aspirants wrong his party, it becomes hard to convincingly reason that helium tin unify and pb an full federation with divers interests and beardown governmental contenders,” Ahmad said.

DAILY POST had reported that Obi and Kwankwaso are acceptable to defect from ADC to NDC adjacent week, according to the Kwankwasiyya...