Former Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi has pledged to serve only one term if elected president, a promise the Tinubu Presidency has dismissed as untrustworthy given his history of broken political commitments.
Former Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi has vowed to limit himself to a single four-year term in office should he become Nigeria’s president, according to Vanguard.
Speaking in a video clip ahead of a full interview on News Central TV, Obi declared: “I want to be a one-term president because of stability. I would not stay a day, with a gun to my head, longer than four years.”
Obi also attacked the Tinubu administration on borrowing, food security and insecurity, stating: “It’s only two years that Nigeria has been the hungriest country in the world.”
The Presidency responded swiftly. Special Adviser on Information and Strategy Bayo Onanuga wrote on X: “If you believe Peter Obi’s promise to serve only one term as president, you’ll believe anything.”
Onanuga pointed to Obi’s political history, noting he had previously sworn loyalty to APGA — even “on the Ikemba’s deathbed” — before abandoning the party for the PDP and subsequently other platforms.
“By his own actions, Peter Obi has shown that his word cannot be trusted,” Onanuga stated.
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