Former Borno State Governor Ali Modu Sheriff has alleged that NDC presidential candidate Peter Obi is pursuing the division of Nigeria, claiming Obi has never condemned Biafra or IPOB, in a sharp response to Obi’s recent call for President Tinubu to resign.
Peter Obi called for Tinubu’s resignation. Ali Modu Sheriff called it something else entirely.
The former Borno State Governor came out swinging on Monday during an appearance on Channels Television’s Politics Today, levelling a serious allegation against the NDC presidential candidate in direct response to Obi’s demand that President Bola Tinubu either resign or abandon his 2027 re-election ambitions over the country’s worsening security and economic conditions.
For Sheriff, Obi’s criticism of the President is not patriotic concern — it is separatist agenda dressed up as political opposition.
“Peter Obi, up to this moment, is pursuing the division of Nigeria because he believes in Biafra,” Sheriff said. “He never condemns Biafra or IPOB, as he wants to divide Nigeria. He should come out and say if he doesn’t believe in the division of the country.”
According to Daily Post, the former governor challenged Obi to make his position on Nigerian unity explicit and unambiguous, arguing that silence on separatist movements disqualifies any politician from serious national leadership consideration.
“Anybody aspiring to lead Nigeria must be someone who stands for Nigeria, not for any section,” Sheriff declared.
The allegation marks a significant escalation in the political temperature surrounding Obi’s increasingly vocal opposition to the Tinubu administration. Obi, whose 2023 Labour Party presidential campaign drew massive support particularly from the Southeast and among young urban voters, has been ramping up his criticism of the federal government in recent weeks — most recently over the prolonged captivity of Oyo schoolchildren and what he described as presidential disengagement from state governors during security crises.
Sheriff’s counter-attack reframes Obi’s governance critique as a question of national loyalty rather than policy disagreement, a framing that is likely to draw strong reactions from both Obi’s supporters and political observers ahead of Nigeria’s 2027 election cycle.
Obi has not yet responded to Sheriff’s allegations.
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