2027 Elections: Obi Reaches Out to North for Political Backing

By promising to rid their area of the insecurity scourge, presidential candidate Peter Obi has urged Northerners to back his goal of deposing Bola Tinubu in 2027 and taking his place.

“The North will rejoice if I win the presidency. I want their faith. In an interview broadcast on Channels TV on Sunday evening, Mr. Obi stated, “The North is this country’s greatest asset.” “The uncultivated land is a resource. I’ll take care of the crime that exists in the North today. I know what’s wrong. They can rely on me

“We have been voting for religion and tribe,” he continued. This time, let us vote for competence.

The former governor of Anambra bemoaned the escalation of insecurity during Mr. Tinubu’s rule.

“A number of children in Ibadan passed away on December 18 or around that date. Nigeria’s president took a plane from Abuja to Lagos on the 19th. He has no empathy. “He wasn’t in Benue for days,” Mr. Obi, who ran against Mr. Tinubu in the 2023 presidential race, claimed. He didn’t go to the location of the incident. We lost more than 200 individuals in Niger State, yet he hasn’t visited. If the populace is dying, the president ought to be prepared to pass away.

The member from the Labour Party said that Mr. Tinubu prioritized roads over the lives of unfortunate Nigerians.

Why are highways being put into service when children are dying? Are roads more significant than kids who aren’t in school? Mr. Obi said, “He has no compassion.”

If elected president of Nigeria in 2027, he promised to behave differently.

I’m not going to do that. I’ll go find their parents. I’ll be staying with the people in Mokwa. People want to wake up to a president who is compassionate and cares about them,” the politician stated.

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In the face of the nation’s alarming lack of access to healthcare and other essential social amenities, Mr. Obi criticized Mr. Tinubu for purchasing a presidential jet.

The senator urged the EU to pay “special attention” to the North-East and North-West geopolitical regions that have been devastated by “criminality and hardship” in April.

In spite of his well-publicized worries about the North, some people in the area have vowed that “if he stands for election 1000 times, we won’t vote for him 1000 times.”