PICTORIAL: Jonathan, Peter Obi Hold Closed-door Meeting In Abuja

The statesmanlike campaigner of the Labour Party (LP) successful the 2023 elections, Peter Obi, connected Thursday, held a closed-door gathering with erstwhile President Goodluck Jonathan successful Abuja.

Obi announced the sojourn successful a station connected his authoritative X handle, wherever helium described Jonathan arsenic his “elder brother, a statesman, and leader.”

“Today successful Abuja, I met with my precise beloved elder brother, statesman, and leader, erstwhile President Goodluck Jonathan. We had a fruitful closed-door gathering and discussed the authorities of our beloved nation,” Obi wrote.

Although details of the discussions were not disclosed, the gathering came astatine a clip of heightened statement astir Nigeria’s governmental absorption and governance nether President Bola Tinubu’s administration.

Jonathan, who governed Nigeria betwixt 2010 and 2015, has successful caller years carved a relation arsenic a mediator successful struggle solution and antiauthoritarian strengthening efforts crossed Africa.

Obi, connected the different hand, has continued consultations with governmental stakeholders pursuing his showing successful the 2023 elections, wherever helium came 3rd down President Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and erstwhile Vice President Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

The Abuja gathering is the latest successful Obi’s bid of engagements with influential figures, fueling speculation astir imaginable governmental realignments up of aboriginal elections.

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