Peter Obi is stranded, won’t get any ticket: Tinubu’s aide speaks on 2027 elections

The Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Policy Communication, Daniel Bwala, has predicted that Peter Obi, would not contest the 2027 elections as a presidential or vice presidential candidate of any party.

Bwala said that Obi would not emerge as the presidential nor vice-presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC).

According to Bwala, the former Anambra governor stated that Obi has lost all the support that made him popular ahead of the 2023 elections, including those who worked with him have abandoned him.

Speaking during an interview on The Clarity Zone Podcast, the Presidential aide said that the former Labour Party presidential candidate has lost control of the political structure he built following the 2023 general election and no longer commands significant influence within Nigeria’s political space.

“After the election, he lost everybody he was leading. He had members in the House of Representatives. How many are there in the National Assembly?” Bwala asked.

He further said that Peter Obi has lost political relevance, and after the 2023 presidential election, all the candidates he supported for elective positions have performed poorly at the polls.

“The only governor he had… is the governor with him or with us? In fact, I have not seen one that identifies with him at the moment.

“All the elections he has gone across Nigeria supporting candidates… all of them failed,” he added.

Bwala further stated that supporters of Peter Obi, including Obidients, always attack political opponents on social media.

He said Obi himself has changed parties severally but they ignore his history of frequent party defections.

“The army of Trojans that he has on social media, they attack people. They say you are two-faced, that you change party.

“But when you say their master and hero has been changing party like a player in the Premier League changes clubs every season, they don’t like it,” he said.

The Presidential aide also accused Obi of hypocrisy on party loyalty, listing his political journey from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), back to the PDP, and later to the Labour Party.

“He started with PDP, then went to APGA. In APGA, he came back to PDP. From PDP, he went to Labour,” he said.

According to Bwala, Obi is currently politically stranded.

“Right now, when you hear people talk about being between the devil and the deep blue sea, he is between ADC and Labour,” he stated.

Peter Obi has made it clear that he would contest not as a vice-presidential candidate but as a presidential candidate in 2027. His supporters have also vowed that either the ADC give Obi the ticket or they will walk out of the party.