“Peter Obi,  Politician Made Of Jelly, An Opportunistic Fellow” – Presidency

By Ayodele Oni 

The Presidency has reacted to the dumping by  Peter Obi of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) and described him as a political nomad.

Obi had, on Sunday, announced his decision to dump the coalition party saying “Persistent internal disputes, external interference, ongoing litigations, factional divisions, and “a growing climate of distrust” are reasons for his  decision.

Obi, in a statement had revealed that he decided to leave the ADC not because he was treated badly by the party’s National Chairman, Senator David Mark, or because of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar.

He also stated that nothing wrong was personally done to him by other respected leaders in the party, whom he would continue to respect.

He, however, stated that the same Nigerian state and its agents that created unnecessary crises and hostility within the Labour Party that forced him to leave now appear to be finding their way into the ADC, with endless court cases, internal battles, suspicion, and division, instead of focusing on deeper national problems and playing politics built more on control and exclusion than on service and nation-building.

Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga,  described the former presidential candidate of the Labour Party(LP), as a political nomad.

Onanuga spoke in response to Obi’s resignation from ADC which he joined a few months ago from LP.

Reacting in a terse post on X, Onanuga described Obi as a “political nomad” and a “politician made of jelly”.

He said: “We told you so. The political nomad is on the move again. Ignore all those puerile reasons he gave in these illogical musings, a self-serving letter to his mob. Peter Obi is a politician made of jelly, an opportunistic fellow.

“He can’t fight Atiku or Amaechi for the ticket of ADC. He pursues the easy road, that will only lead him to doom, like in 2023.

“He always blames the government without doing a soul-searching of himself. Welcome, Peter to the 2027 race.”