A member of the People Democratic Party, PDP, Segun Sowunmi, has regretted the exit of Mr Peter Obi from the party.
He spoke during an interview with Channels Television’s 'Politics Today', urging the party to make all efforts to bring Obi back.
Sowunmi, who described Obi’s energy as organic, recalled that he departed the party ahead of the 2023 election because he foresaw unfair treatment of the South-East.
It could be recalled that Obi dumped the PDP for the Labour Party prior to the 2023 presidential election and went ahead to produce a result that has been widely acclaimed to be historical.
As the PDP battles to redeem itself, Sowunmi has now advised the party to go woo Obi back.
He said, ‘’One of the people who was a PDP member, a South eastern man who felt based on the balance of play that the South-East was excluded, Peter Obi, was allocated 6.2 million votes, you lose the election, you run to the Supreme Court you lose, at least you were adjudged to have lost.
"Any deep-thinking, fair-minded Nigerian man who is in the political party called the PDP ought to know that the greatest, necessary next step is to have the conversation about: ‘How do you bring Peter back’ now that the energy driving him is organic.”
He also spoke on the crisis in the PDP and further warned the party against underestimating President Bola Tinubu.
According to him, “There is a level of activity that you can blame your bullies for, but there is a certain level of recurring, continuous lack of creativity that you have you have to hold yourself responsible for.
“One of the things that people do is fall prey to the frail nature of President Bola Tinubu. I know him for his intellectual capacity. He will look frail, but his brain is that of a giant, so most times people underestimate him to their own peril.
‘’The painful thing is that my own side is choosing to pretend that it is an easy material to defeat in politics. What do they know that he doesn’t know?”