Presidential candidate Peter Obi
Onumba.com ——- It goes without saying that Peter Gregory Obi is a hugely popular Nigerian politician. Dude is a political behemoth. Since he leaped into the presidential politics years ago, Mr. Obi has soared to the apex of who’s who in the Nigeria’s political stratosphere, and has maintained an unwavering level of public acceptance, even after losing the 2023 election. In short, his broad appeal is steady and sprawling with a tidal wave of support flowing from all regions and ethnicities.
But the bad news, kind of, for Mr. Obi is that he can’t seem to find a political space to call home. He is a political nomad, even though he is doing a stellar job shepherding his fealty sheep. Recently, it appeared as though he was on the verge of securing a nice, cozy pad with ADC, but no, that went south quicker than you can say ‘Na ‘Atiku cusam.’
Akin to Willie Nelson’s ‘On the Road Again,’ classic tune, Mr. Obi’s presidential caravan is once again on the move, a jaunt that started from the Labor Party bus terminal, made a brief stop at ADC station where he supposedly picked up some 17 dangling stragglers of the House of Representative and then took off and has now pulled up at NDC station. Hopefully, he feels warm and fuzzy there long enough to call it home.
His next stop? Heck, your guess is as good as mine.
But then again, the PRP bus terminal is down the road. If Mr. Obi makes a stop there, he will reconnect with his former Labor Party running mate Datti Baba-Ahmed who recently unleashed a flush jab at the Anambra native for abandoning the Labor Party citing the tiff there, Datti lampooning that move as an evidence of feeble leadership quality.
Ouch! Politics is a rough game, but somebody got to play it.
