Atiku/Obi/Kwankwaso: Utomi Is A Serial Promoter Of failing Merger Parties - APC

The All Progressives Congress (APC)has dismissed as ‘an unmitigated delusional grandeur’ the proposed collaboration of major opposition parties, the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) Labour Party (LP) and and New Nigerian Peoples Party( NNPP) into the emergence of a mega party.

Credited to Prof. Pat Utomi, the Lagos Business School founder was quoted to have said that leaders of the three political parties Atiku Abubakar, Peter Obi Alhaji Rabiu Kwankwaso would collaborate in a merger or some other form of cooperation in 2027 to upstage the APC.

However spokesman of the ruling party Felix Morka laughed off the proposal describing Prof Utomi as a serial promoter of Mega party that only ends up as media hypes.

Morka said Utomi, his Delta State kinsman, cannot be taken seriously as similar proposals in the past never got off the block.

“As a serial promoter of mega parties that never materialize, Prof. Pat Utomi’s statement cannot be taken that seriously. In 2021, Prof Utomi and his collaborators disturbed the airwaves with plans to launch a people-centered ideological mega party under the auspices of the National Consultative Front (NCFront) to dislodge the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). That plan did not go past the news headlines.

“Now in 2024, Prof. Utomi is touting a possible merger or collaboration between the Labour Party (LP), New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) and the PDP, vastly the political parties, he has argued, that are bereft of any ideological orientation or “did not manage to create an alignment with the Nigerian People to improve the quality of their lives.”

“One can only infer that Prof. Utomi may be positing that his personal involvement in the proposed alliance will transmogrify the same parties, he has adjudged to be decadent and anti-people, into bastions of political and economic liberty for Nigerians. That is an unmitigated delusion of grandeur.”