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Peter Obi: Buhari Celebrated Obasanjo’s Endorsement – Balami
Divergent views have continued to trail the endorsement of the Labour Party Presidential candidate, Peter Obi by former President, Olusegun Obasanjo.
On New Year’s Day, Obasanjo condemned the President Muhammadu Buhari administration for failing to translate the aspirations of Nigerians. He then endorsed Peter Obi.
The elder statesman said he has had interactions with major presidential contestants in the 2023 presidential elections who claimed to be his mentees and Obi was youthful, has the ability to not only unite the country, had a listening ear, and was willing to rescue Nigeria from economic collapse.
Peter Obi has in the last three days been endorsed by elder statesmen like Obasanjo and Edwin Clark, leader of the leader of the Pan-Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), sparking reactions from the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Rabiu Kwankwaso.
Tinubu had described the endorsement as worthless because Obasanjo who is a ‘political paperweight’ does not possess any political goodwill to make anyone win a councillorship or presidential election.
While Atiku through his spokesman Dino Melaye said Obasanjo is posturing as Nigeria’s electoral janitor when he is not the ‘custodian’ of the key to Aso Rock, Kwakwaso advised him to stop disgracing himself, insisting that Peter Obi’s endorsement was based on religious and ethnic sentiments.
Responding to criticism from the trio, popular aircraft engineer and Deputy Campaign Manager 1 of the Obi-Datti Campaign Council said the APC and the PDP were living in self deceit.
In an exclusive interview with DAILY POST, he queried why the presidential aspirants claimed the endorsement was worthless yet they preferred to visit Obasanjo to endorse them.
Balami in defence of the former president, argued that Buhari celebrated and praised Obasanjo for endorsing him in 2015.
The former spokesman of the Trade Union Congress said, ”If Obasanjo is not important, why did Tinubu visit him? If endorsement of people that matter is not important, why did APC become so desperate and even went to a former Afenifere leader to endorse and bless them when the incumbent Afenifere leader endorsed and blessed Obi?
”If endorsement is not important, in 2015 when Obasanjo endorsed Buhari, Buhari spoke on CNN and said that Obasanjo was someone that his opinion mattered. He said Obasanjo’s endorsement meant a lot and it would attract so many followers. How can a former Head of State military, former President endorse someone and you say the endorsement mean nothing? I think it is self deceit. The worst thing in this life is for someone to lie and deceive himself.
”I think the APC and the PDP are still living in self denial but in the next couple of weeks they will realise that Nigerians have made up their mind to take back their country. It is not a matter of what they think anymore, it is a matter of reality.
”The issue of BVAs has come to stay. They can go and buy as much vote as they want to buy, people are tired and they will do what is right.
”You can’t say Clark’s endorsement means nothing. When it suits them they are happy but when it doesn’t, they say something else.
”For us we are focused. We are just about six months into this and we have made them have sleepless nights and it will continue until we take over the country.
”This is not about Peter Obi and Datti, Nigerians are tired. I will advise the APC and the PDP to be honest to themselves,” he added.
The Rivers State House of Assembly, led by Speaker Martin Amaewhule, has initiated impeachment proceedings against Governor Siminalayi Fubara and Deputy Ngozi Odu, issuing them a seven-day notice to respond to allegations of gross misconduct.
The Assembly cited eight specific allegations of gross misconduct as the basis for the move.
This is the third time Fubara and Odu would be facing impeachment proceedings from the Assembly since coming to office in 2023.
Attempts to impeach them in 2023 and 2025, amid political feuds between the Governor and his predecessor and erstwhile political god-father, now Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, had been halted by presidential intervention.
Here are the allegations below:
1. Reckless and unconstitutional expenditure of public funds
2. Unconstitutional misappropriation of public funds
3. Hindering the Rivers Assembly from performing its constitutional duties
4. Illegal appointments of persons without screening by the House of Assembly as provided by the Constitution
5. Seizure of salaries and funds meant for Assembly members
6. Seizure of salaries of the clerk of the Rivers House of Assembly, Emeka Amadi
7. Refusal to implement provisions of the Constitution on financial autonomy of the legislature and the judiciary
8. Withholding of funds meant for the running of the Rivers House of Assembly Service Commission and hindering its activities
Lilian Adebayo, the wife of the 2023 presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party, has said that the party will unseat the ruling All Progressive Party at the 2027 election if Nigerians are true to themselves.
Mrs Adebayo made this assertion known on Wednesday during an interview with journalists after an event in Abuja.
According to her, the opposition party has overcome its crisis after the expulsion of its former chairman, Shehu Gabam and others.
She said Nigerians should vote the APC out in the 2027 general election due to the hardship the party has plunged citizens into.
“There is always a crisis in the party; the SPD has been able to handle its own. The problems in the party have been resolved.
“He has a great chance of winning the election if Nigerians are honest with themselves. If Nigerians think that the ones they consistently vote for would move the country forward, they live in denial,” she concerning the husband.
Recall that SDP recently expelled Gabam and other party executives.
The party’s state chairmen on Wednesday urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the police to investigate Gabam over alleged misappropriation.
In a significant political move, Enugu State Governor Peter Mbah officially defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Tuesday, October 14, 2025.
Mbah announced his decision during a televised broadcast in Enugu after weeks of speculation.
He said, “Today, after a long reflection, we have made the decision to leave the Peoples Democratic Party and join the All Progressives Congress.”
Mbah explained that his decision to join the PDP was informed by the need to reshape Enugu and reorganise the politics of the state.
“Today, I stand before you to announce a break from the past and to share a decision that will shape the road ahead. This concerns our values, how we organize ourselves politically and how we secure the future of our project and our people.
“Leadership sometimes demands painful decisions in the service of higher principles and goals. And there comes a time, when everyone must make a bold choice to determine their destiny.”
Ahead of the governor’s defection, all members of his cabinet had on joined the ruling party.
Governor Mbah’s Senior Media Aide, Dan Nwomeh, confirmed the mass defection in a video posted on his social media handles on Monday. In the video, several government officials were seen openly declaring their allegiance to the APC, chanting praises for President Bola Tinubu and affirming their commitment to the new party.
“Enugu State Cabinet Members join the APC with full chest along with Governor PN Mbah,” Nwomeh stated.
The officials, including commissioners and top aides, could be heard in the video declaring, “We are now in APC; tomorrow is here; it is APC all the way; it is Jagaban all the way; from top to bottom.”
The collective defection marks a significant political shift in Enugu State, which has been a PDP stronghold since 1999.
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