Factional National Publicity Secretary of the Labour Party (LP), Abayomi Arabambi, has mocked the party’s 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi, over his renewed pledge to serve only a single term if elected president in 2027.
Obi, who recently reaffirmed his four-year vow, pointed to the leadership legacies of Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, and Nelson Mandela to justify his position, arguing that he does not need eight years to fix Nigeria.
However, Arabambi disagreed strongly, accusing Obi of overreaching by comparing himself to Mandela.
“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 Labour Party. You’ve heard him when he said ‘I’m not here to build Labour Party, I’m only here to build Nigeria.’ He said it openly that he doesn’t have any business building Labour Party and that exactly is what he’s doing today,” Arabambi stated during an interview on Channels Television’s “Morning Brief” on Tuesday.
He further recalled Obi’s broken promise to remain in the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), the platform that brought him to power in Anambra State, saying it reveals a pattern of untrustworthiness.
“Nobody should trust Obi because of his antecedent. 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,” Arabambi said.
