Saraki-led PDP Reconciliation Committee Meets Obasanjo, Fayose, Olujimi

As part of the preparations for the 2023 general election and the efforts to reposition the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, on Tuesday held a closed-door meeting with former Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki. Although the details of the meeting were not known as at press time, it is not unrelated on how to repackage the PDP for the 2023 general election by presenting it as the only alternative to “salvage the declining economy and the ugly state of insecurity in the country.” “Since the assumption of office of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led All Progressives Congress (APC) government, Nigeria has witnessed the worse security crisis as well a divided country,” the party said. The Saraki-led PDP Reconciliation and Strategy Committee also had a meeting with the former Governor of Ekiti State, Peter Ayo Fayose, at his Ikeja home in Lagos. The agenda of the meeting was on how to unite the PDP in the South-west region as well as unite the former governor with a section of the party in the state led by Senator Biodun Olujimi. Confirming the meeting, the committee tweeted: "As part of its ongoing engagements with influential stakeholders across the country, today, the @OfficialPDPNig Reconciliation and Strategy Committee is in Ogun State to meet with another former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo. #PDPReconciliation." Thereafter the meeting, Fayose travelled to Abuja to lead his group to another meeting in the residence of the former president in Abuja. It was learnt that the meeting was also attended by the group led by Senator Olujimi. Former governor of Cross River State, Liyel Imoke, and former Senate President, Anyim Pius Anyim, were the moderators of the meeting since the Chairman, Saraki, was in Lagos. After the meeting with President Obasanjo, Saraki and his team moved to Lagos where they would hold meetings with several PDP groups in the state.