{"id":166512,"date":"2025-06-11T22:32:37","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T21:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/coalition-peter-obi-my-greatest-disappointment-sowunmi"},"modified":"2025-06-11T23:47:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T22:47:26","slug":"coalition-peter-obi-my-greatest-disappointment-sowunmi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/coalition-peter-obi-my-greatest-disappointment-sowunmi","title":{"rendered":"Coalition: Peter Obi my greatest disappointment\u200a \u2014\u200a Sowunmi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Segun Sowunmi, a former spokesman to ex-Vice President Atiku Abubakar, says the 2023 Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi has turned out to be his \u2018greatest disappointment\u2019 due to his perceived receptiveness to the opposition coalition.<\/p>\n<p>Sowunmi stated this during an interview on Arise Television\u2019s \u2018Prime Time\u2019, stressing he was disappointed in Obi because he failed to take advantage of his popularity by aligning with the main opposition force in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The PDP chieftain, while expressing dissatisfaction with his principal\u2019s move, added that the PDP has to be the base of the coalition, labelling the coalition movement a selfish adventure to favour a set of politicians.<\/p>\n<p>He warned Obi against the coalition, saying the politicians in the movement are only interested in taking advantage of his popularity for the 2027 general elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy greatest disappointment as we are getting ready for 2027 is actually Peter. The reason is that I had hoped in all of his seriousness that Peter will understand that we can move and challenge the status quo, not the way he\u2019s been doing it all by himself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe could do that just to be able to take the outcome, even if it\u2019s a defeat, we\u2019ll say we gave it the best push, and we shattered the glass ceilings and united the country because there\u2019s no glass ceiling on top of the South East. You made one effort and then the next thing you\u2019re doing you started running up and down the street,\u201d Sowunmi said.<\/p>\n<p>The PDP chieftain said he told Obi that if he failed to make up his mind by May 29, he would be inclined to declare his support for President Tinubu in the next election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI told him many months before that if your mind is not made up by May 29 this year on what you want to do, I\u2019m going to be more inclined to support Asiwaju. And the simple reason is this, I told him Peter, the benefits that we have done now by integrating you as someone that can be leader of the Igbo political force, and in a pan Nigerian environment, I do not think throw it away but it\u2019s your call, if you want to do that all this coalition this, coalition that. I\u2019m thinking that you\u2019re bringing a new order,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Obi, a former Anambra State governor, who dumped the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, 2022 for the Labour Party, has become a political force in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Even though he came third with over six million votes in the 2023 presidential election, Obi commands a massive following among the youth nationwide.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Segun Sowunmi, a former spokesman to ex-Vice President Atiku Abubakar, says the 2023 Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi has turned out to be his \u2018greatest disappointment\u2019 due to his perceived receptiveness to the opposition coalition. Sowunmi stated this during an interview on Arise Television\u2019s \u2018Prime Time\u2019, stressing he was disappointed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":166511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,28,14,2660],"tags":[7919,254,222,10620],"class_list":["post-166512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-to-homepage","tag-coalition","tag-nigeria","tag-peter-obi","tag-sowunmi"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Coalition: Peter Obi my greatest disappointment\u200a \u2014\u200a Sowunmi - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Segun Sowunmi, a former spokesman to ex-Vice President Atiku Abubakar, says the 2023 Labour Party, LP, presidential cand ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/coalition-peter-obi-my-greatest-disappointment-sowunmi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Coalition: Peter Obi my greatest disappointment\u200a \u2014\u200a Sowunmi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Segun Sowunmi, a former spokesman to ex-Vice President Atiku Abubakar, says the 2023 Labour Party, LP, presidential cand ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/coalition-peter-obi-my-greatest-disappointment-sowunmi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-06-11T21:32:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-06-11T22:47:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/06\/sm_1749669422.863841.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/coalition-peter-obi-my-greatest-disappointment-sowunmi#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/coalition-peter-obi-my-greatest-disappointment-sowunmi\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Coalition: Peter Obi my greatest disappointment\u200a \u2014\u200a Sowunmi\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-06-11T21:32:37+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-06-11T22:47:26+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/coalition-peter-obi-my-greatest-disappointment-sowunmi\"},\"wordCount\":459,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/coalition-peter-obi-my-greatest-disappointment-sowunmi#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/06\/sm_1749669422.863841.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Coalition\",\"Nigeria\",\"Peter Obi\",\"Sowunmi\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"Policy\",\"to-homepage\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/coalition-peter-obi-my-greatest-disappointment-sowunmi#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/coalition-peter-obi-my-greatest-disappointment-sowunmi\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/coalition-peter-obi-my-greatest-disappointment-sowunmi\",\"name\":\"Coalition: Peter Obi my greatest disappointment\u200a \u2014\u200a Sowunmi - 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