Former President, Goodluck Jonathan, on Friday, hosted the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, at his country home in Yenagoa in Bayelsa State.
Reports said that Jonathan tasked Obi with a singular, consequential message: go and cement the walls of unity, remove division and heal the wound of a divided Nigeria.
Obi and Jonathan, as of the time of this report on Friday night, were in a meeting behind closed doors.
The meeting was holding amid the LP candidate’s presidential campaign ahead of the 2023 elections.
A report by Channels Television quoted the former President, to have said that everything must be done to unite a Nigeria that “is extremely divided.”
Jonathan, who gave the task of uniting Nigeria as the first priority of the former Governor of Anambra State, should he emerge victorious in 2023, commended him for taking the bold step to contest the elections next year outside the two major parties.
Obi, who was accompanied by his running mate, Yusuf Baba-Ahmed, and party stalwarts, had also pocketed the support of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, who, in Enugu, penultimate weekend, said helping the LP candidate to win the election, represented the Nigerian project founded on justice, equity and fair-play.
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