Tuesday, August 5, 2025 - Reuben Abati, popular media personality and former presidential spokesperson, has slammed Peter Obi, former Anambra State governor, over his recent remark on a one-term presidency.
In a viral video on Monday during the Arise Television
programme, Abati said Obi’s vow to do one term if elected as Nigeria’s
president is a sign of desperation.
This comes as mixed reactions continue to trail Obi’s
comment that he would serve only one term if elected as Nigeria’s president.
The incumbent governor of Anambra State, Governor
Charles Soludo had chided Peter Obi over his one-term presidency
remark.
However, Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party
at the 2023 election, had stood by his remark.
Reacting, Abati stressed that Peter Obi’s “I will do one
term; I will serve you food” will not work.
He urged Nigerians to ignore any politician with a sign of
desperation.
“What I am saying is that any politician that comes to you
and says that I am going to do only one term, that is a sign of desperation.
“It will not work. Just like the gambit about serving food
and carrying plates or doing boy-boy at parties that will be better organised
by event organisers. It is also a sign of desperation; it will not work,” he
said.
He added that Nigeria will progress when the Nigerian people put competence
above religion, region, and other sentiments.
“If Nigerian people are politically educated to a point
where they can vote for a competent person regardless of where he comes from or
his religion, that’s when the country will begin to move forward.
“So, all this ‘I will do one term, I will serve you food,’
that’s not going to work,” he said.
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