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Friday, September 5th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Former spokesperson for the Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council, Kenneth Okonkwo, says Peter Obi’s caller committedness to service lone 1 word if elected president successful 2027 is simply a well-thought-out program and a governmental strategy with the purpose of winning bluish support.
Okonkwo stated this connected Friday erstwhile helium appeared connected Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily, saying that Obi was alert that nonaccomplishment to marque specified a committedness could not get him bluish enactment travel 2027.
He said: “So I brought the mentation arsenic a mode for immoderate absorption enactment to animate Nigerians to cognize that each broadside volition not suffer erstwhile they marque immoderate choice, whether northbound oregon south.
“So, it was adjacent Atiku Abubakar that archetypal of each said helium was going to bash 1 term, past Peter Obi present keyed into it due to the fact that helium knows that if he, arsenic a younger person, does not marque that promise, helium loses the full North,” helium said.
Okonkwo stated that the thought was to reassure some regions that powerfulness rotation would beryllium strictly followed.
“So it’s purely a governmental strategy to say, ‘Look, I americium not going to chopped the 8 years. I’m not going to shortchange you. So if I americium elected, I volition conscionable bash lone 4 years to implicit the 8 years of the South.’ So that’s conscionable the full thought astir it,” helium stated.
According to him, immoderate enactment intent connected unseating an incumbent indispensable contiguous a statement that its statesmanlike campaigner volition get lone a azygous term, to marque definite that nary faction feels wronged.
The lawyer said, “I was the 1 who propounded it (one-term presidency) arsenic a theory, saying that immoderate enactment that is superior astir warring an incumbent indispensable person to accidental that whoever is going to contention should person to bash 1 word truthful that nary broadside volition consciousness cheated.
“So if you are a southerner, if you don’t hold to bash 1 term, the northerners volition accidental you privation to bash different 8 years, which volition offend the system. If you are a northerner, if you don’t hold to bash 1 term, the southerners volition accidental that means you privation to chopped america abbreviated early.”
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