A former National Chairman of the Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC), Peter Ameh, has claimed that people of the North have accepted Peter Obi’s presidency and his single-term proposal.

He warned that, unlike the previous election, mechanisms would be put in place to defend Obi’s popularity.

Speaking during an appearance on Channels Television, Ameh argued that four years is enough for Obi to change Nigeria.

According to him, the former Anambra governor seeking to be elected president in 2027, isn’t coming to learn on the job, and he does not have an it’s-my-turn mentality like President Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

He said, “I am from northern Nigeria and we know, as I speak today, that the current available decision of our people favours Peter Obi.

“The north is a very diverse place and a very complex political territory. For me, I don’t think the north is as difficult as people want to make us believe.

“The northern Nigeria that you see today, Kaduna, Kano, Sokoto and all that, his (Obi’s) performance there was very clear, even in Plateau. We want a free election, that is fair and that is credible.

“The north is more politically understanding than any other region of this country. Peter Obi has made an emphatic statement and a public declaration that ‘I want to do only one term so that I don’t tilt the balance of our unwritten arrangement’.

“We should be looking for someone who has compassion, discipline, character and competence, and not about ethnicity or religion.

“We are going to challenge all the illegal processes that were used to undermine our voters and the outcome of the election, and we are going to put mechanisms in place to defend the popularity that Peter Obi has gotten and the acceptance he now enjoys.”