Peter Obi: Politics without anchor, by Uche Nnadozie
In 2013, as Peter Obi was rounding off his tenure as Anambra governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo — who had joined APGA to contest — was controversially disqualified by Obi and his camp. Despite that bitter experience, Soludo vowed to remain in APGA and help build the party.
Compare that with Obi. At the time, Obi also swore he would never leave APGA. But just months after leaving office, and after lobbying unsuccessfully for a ministerial post, he dumped APGA and defected to PDP under Jonathan. That made it his third party: ANPP, APGA, then PDP. Desperation on full display.
Jonathan rewarded him with an appointment as SEC chairman, and by 2015, Obi had risen to become Deputy DG of the PDP Presidential Campaign Council (South). I won’t even go into the murky tales of campaign funds and what he, Nenadi Usman and Dasuki did with them.
Fast forward: after losing to Buhari as Atiku’s VP pick in 2019, Obi jumped to Labour Party. After losing the 2023 election to Tinubu, he quietly abandoned LP. Today, no one really knows his political address — LP? Obidient Party? ADC?
At the weekend, the confusion became glaring: Obi left his LP candidate and went to campaign for an ADC candidate. As if 2025–27 will be like 2023, when an IPOB-fuelled LP mob chased other parties out of the southeast to enthrone a shallow movement.
Obi, you don’t build — you hijack. Like a pirate, you seize what others labored for and then claim brilliance on shore. But politics is not trickery. It is structure, consistency, sacrifice.
Check yourself, sir. Your politics is too self-serving, too emotional, too opportunistic. You cannot be the beacon of Igbo renaissance. You are too erratic, too unserious for that toga. Like Nnamdi Kanu, you stir emotions but cannot win.
Support Tinubu now — or retire quietly.
But we still no dey give shishi sha.
