A fresh controversy over the identity details contained in Peter Obi’s official records has opened another front in the debate over the former Anambra State governor’s bid for the Nigerian presidency in 2027.
Abayomi Arabambi, a chieftain of the Labour Party and former national publicity secretary of the party, has called on Obi to withdraw from the presidential race, arguing that discrepancies in the names appearing on documents attributed to him require satisfactory explanation before he seeks another mandate from Nigerian voters.
Obi, who was the Labour Party’s presidential candidate in the 2023 election, is now expected to contest the 2027 presidential election on the platform of the Nigeria Democratic Congress as established by the Independent National Electoral Commission.
However, Arabambi said the NDC leadership, particularly former Bayelsa State governor and the party’s national leader, Seriake Dickson, should not issue Obi a presidential nomination form until the questions surrounding his official records were resolved.
“My appeal first will go to the leader of the NDC, Seriake Dickson, not to foster what I will call a disaster in Nigeria by presenting Mr Peter Obi as the presidential candidate by giving him that form rather than giving him a JAMB form to fill,” Arabambi said during an interview on Arise TV.
