The Obi Kwankwaso Alliance came under sharp attack on Monday as the All Progressives Congress accused Peter Obi and Rabiu Kwankwaso of chasing an easy route to the presidency. Felix Morka, the APC’s national publicity secretary, said on Channels Television’s The Morning Brief that the pair and other opposition leaders were unserious because of the way they keep moving from party to party.
Morka said the APC was not to blame for the crisis inside opposition ranks. He said Obi and Kwankwaso were looking for a convenient platform where they could quickly secure presidential tickets, adding that they were searching for a “cheap, inexpensive, maybe even free platform” that would put the ticket “on a platter of gold.”
The remarks came a day after Obi and Kwankwaso formally joined the NDC in Abuja on Sunday, receiving their membership cards amid cheers from supporters after a closed-door meeting with party leaders. Cleopas Moses Zuwoghe presented the cards to both men. Obi was the Labour Party’s 2023 presidential candidate, while Kwankwaso was the presidential candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party.
Obi has said he left the ADC because of internal crises and litigation within the party, and he used the membership ceremony to warn against a repeat of that fighting. “Please let there be no litigation,” he said. “Party members, please don’t go to court,” he added. “We want to build a party; we are not lawyers.”
The clash matters because the Abuja meeting was held ahead of the 2027 general election, where any alliance between Obi and Kwankwaso would be watched closely by both the APC and opposition parties. Morka’s comments showed the governing party is already trying to frame the pair’s moves as a struggle for tickets rather than a broad political realignment, while Obi’s appeal for calm suggests he wants the NDC to avoid the same fractures that weakened his previous party home.
