Factional National Publicity Secretary of the Labour Party (LP), Abayomi Arabambi, has stated that Nigerians should not trust former Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, over his single-term promise if elected Nigeria’s president in 2027.
Naijaonpoint reports that Arabambi made this known in response to the Labour Party’s 2023 presidential candidate’s recent pledge to serve a term of four years, saying he does not need eight years to fix the country.
Peter Obi also cited the leadership examples of Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, and Nelson Mandela as justification for his pledge.
However, speaking on Channels Television’s “Morning Brief’ on Tuesday, Arabambi slammed Peter Obi for citing Nelson Mandela’s presidency in South Africa as a justification for his single-term vow.
Arabambi said it is an insult for the former governor of Anambra State to compare himself to Mandela, stating that they are parallel lines, and Peter Obi does not come close to any of the leaders he mentioned.
Recalling Peter Obi’s alleged promise to the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), the platform through which he served as governor of Anambra for eight years, Arabambi said Obi should not be trusted due to his antecedents.
He said, It’s an insult for Peter Obi to compare himself to Nelson Mandela. They are just two parallel lines that can never meet. Here is a man who could not build the Labour Party. You’ve heard him when he said ‘I’m not here to build labour party, I’m opnly here to build Nigeria.’ He said it openly that he doesn’t have any business building labour party and that e“xcatly is what he’s doing today.
“Nobody should trust Obi because of his antecedents. Nobody forced him to say he would not leave APGA, but there was an issue between him and Peter Ume over the conduct of local government election then, which he did three months to the expiration of his tenure and that was what caused their separation and he left to join the PDP…Obi cannot be telling us now that he will do one term when ab initio he vowed to die in APGA.”
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