Prof. Pat Utomi has embarked on another move for the formation of a mega political party in Nigeria to confront the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2027 general elections.
Utomi who has been on the mission of mega party over the years, was cited to have said in a media interaction that he has held discussions with the leading presidential candidates in the 2023 general elections, namely, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP), and Engr. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), for the formation of a mega party in 2027.
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Utomi was,. accordingly, cited to have said: “I talked to several of the presidential candidates in the last election about this track we are traveling. I have had conversations with Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, I have had conversations with Engineer Rabiu Kwankwaso, I have had conversations with Peter Gregory Obi and people like Ralph Okey Nwosu of ADC and some of the people who probably constitute the base.
“I had said to them, it is not about you, it is about Nigeria, it’s about the ordinary people in the street, it is about truly moving from this business of sharing from trickles of oil sales to how we can become one of the most productive economies.
“It is actually a clean start. You have to start from the premise that Nigeria has not had a political party since 1999 and let’s be very honest with ourselves, what we have managed is to create platforms that enable machine politics from which to grab power usually for the purposes of state capture.
“We want to calm down now design a real political party with clear ideas of how you will become part of it, what you will do in it and therefore you accept to do or not to do before you come into it.
“It is where there will be clear agenda, a party plan that the day you arrive in office, everybody from Permanent Secretary to Level 8 Officer know what to do every day to move Nigeria to a certain level, you don’t do it you get fired.”
Pat Utomi in his last move, succeeded in strengthening the Labour Party (LP) which had Peter Obi as its presidential candidate in 2023 to represent a third force.