I Won’t Spend Longer Than 4 Years As President — Peter Obi

Former Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has said he would be willing to serve only one term in office if elected president, citing the urgent need to stabilise Nigeria and reverse what he described as worsening economic hardship and insecurity.

Speaking during an interview on News Central TV on Wednesday, Obi said his decision is driven by the scale of the country’s challenges, which he believes require immediate and focused leadership.

“For stability, I won’t spend a day with a gun on my head longer than four years,” he said. “What we have now is only two years that somebody used to borrow more than all the previous governments put together. It’s only two years that Nigeria has entered into the hungriest country in the world.”

The former Anambra State governor criticized the current administration’s handling of insecurity, lamenting what he described as a disconnect between leadership and the realities on the ground. “A president of Nigeria can stay in Abuja and two hundred people die in Jos or in Niger, or in Benue. I will go there,” Obi stated. “When you go to the theatre of war, you will know how to contribute.”

He also took aim at the government’s response to the agricultural crisis, linking food insecurity to insecurity in farming communities. “Something failed in everything. Ukraine that is at war is donating grain to Nigeria,” he said. “Look at what happened to us with our farmers. Instead of intervening when there was a crisis, we went to import food. They killed all the farmers.”