The Nationwide Publicity Secretary of the Labour Occasion, Abayomi Arabambi, has dismissed the current assertion by Peter Obi, the get together’s 2023 presidential candidate, through which he pledged to serve just one time period if elected in 2027.
DAILY POST reviews that Peter Obi, throughout a dwell session on X Areas on Sunday evening, declared his intention to run for president in 2027.
Talking to supporters each in Nigeria and the diaspora, Obi acknowledged he was prepared to serve a single four-year time period if elected and expressed openness to coalition talks, emphasising that such alliances should be centred on fixing Nigeria’s basic challenges.
On Tuesday, the Nationwide Coordinator for the Obidient Motion Worldwide, Yunusa Tanko, disclosed that Obi has submitted his single-tenure proposal to the opposition coalition for consideration.
Talking on Wednesday on a present affairs programme on Eagle 102.5 FM, Ilese Ijebu, monitored by DAILY POST in Abeokuta, Arabambi described Obi’s declare as “falsehood laced with desperation.”
He mentioned, “That assertion about operating for only one time period is misleading. In Nigeria’s historical past, has any president ever really dedicated to 1 time period? After a yr or two, you’ll begin listening to chants of ‘4 extra years.’ Peter Obi’s promise is inconsistent and dishonest.
“The likes of Obi and his co-farmers, we all know what they got here to do however for him to say he’s going to spend only a time period is an announcement made out of falsehood [and] is unattainable.
“He mentioned he’ll repair Nigeria in two years, a person that can’t even repair Labour Occasion in six months. He got here to ensure our get together was an embodiment of his institutional slavery. The place’s the empirical monitor of his phrases?”
The Labour Occasion spokesperson additional criticised Obi’s political historical past, accusing him of destabilising the get together after becoming a member of in 2022.
“The man got here to rip-off us in Labour and I’ll by no means deviate as a result of we all know the intricacies that occurred within the get together. He moved from APGA to PDP, then got here to Labour Occasion. He’s a political rip-off. When the time comes, we are going to expose him,” he added.
Arabambi, nonetheless, downplayed the importance of the coalition, describing it as “egocentric and private,” restating that the get together wouldn’t kind alliances with those that, in his opinion, contributed to the present state of Nigeria.
“We’re not contemplating any coalition. The likes of Tinubu, Atiku, and even Obi have introduced this nation to its knees since 2015. They’re birds of the identical feather. They need to all get out of Nigeria’s political system,” he acknowledged.
