{"id":71960,"date":"2025-08-04T07:53:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T07:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=71960"},"modified":"2025-08-04T07:53:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T07:53:45","slug":"presidency-slams-obi-over-one-term-promise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/04\/presidency-slams-obi-over-one-term-promise\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidency Slams Obi Over One-Term Promise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, has dismissed former Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi\u2019s recent pledge to serve only one term if elected, accusing him of dishonesty and inconsistency.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement posted on X (formerly Twitter), Onanuga ridiculed Obi\u2019s vow, saying, \u201cYou\u2019re neither a Mandela nor a Lincoln or a Kennedy. You sound as if you have never held an elected office before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He argued that Obi lacks the moral standing to make such a pledge, citing his political history.<\/p>\n<p>He recalled that Obi had served two terms as governor of Anambra State, asking why he didn\u2019t step aside after his first term if he truly believed in a one-term principle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy didn\u2019t you walk away after only one term in office?\u201d Onanuga asked, suggesting Obi\u2019s re-election was only possible because the opposition was fragmented at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Onanuga further criticized Obi\u2019s performance in Anambra, claiming the state did not witness significant progress during his eight-year rule.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you couldn\u2019t transform a small Anambra after 8 years, is there a guarantee that you\u2019ll do anything significant under 4 years as President of a complex and complicated Nigeria?\u201d he queried.<\/p>\n<p>He also accused Obi of reneging on previous political promises, including his pledge to remain in the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), which he later left.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow do you expect people to trust someone who can\u2019t keep a simple promise not to leave a political party?\u201d Onanuga asked.<\/p>\n<p>As of the time of filing this report, Obi has not responded to Onanuga\u2019s remarks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata The Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, has dismissed former Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi\u2019s recent pledge to serve only one term if elected, accusing him of dishonesty and inconsistency. In a statement posted on X (formerly Twitter), Onanuga ridiculed Obi\u2019s vow, saying, \u201cYou\u2019re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":71961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71962,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71960\/revisions\/71962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}