Former Chairman of the Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC), Peter Ameh, has declared that Nigeria’s northern region has embraced Peter Obi, the 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate, and is receptive to his proposal for a single-term presidency.
Speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme, Ameh emphasized that Obi’s growing influence and policy ideas are shaping the political dynamics ahead of the 2027 general elections.
Ameh, a staunch supporter of the 2023 flag bearer of the Labour Party (LP), said 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).
For the former IPAC chair, Obi’s character, competence and empathic leadership made him accepted in northern Nigeria.
Ameh said, “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.”
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