{"id":171384,"date":"2025-07-27T20:46:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T19:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/omojuwa-on-why-obi-will-never-be-president"},"modified":"2025-07-27T22:18:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T21:18:13","slug":"omojuwa-on-why-obi-will-never-be-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/omojuwa-on-why-obi-will-never-be-president","title":{"rendered":"Omojuwa on Why Obi Will Never Be President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Nigerian political commentator and social media expert, Japheth Joshua Omojuwa, has given reasons why he believes strongly that Peter Obi will never be President.<\/p>\n<p>Omojuwa, during an interview on Mic On Podcast, maintained his confident declaration that Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 general election, will never become Nigeria\u2019s president.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if his declaration is not an overtly absolute verdict in a democratic setting known for its surprises, especially when the same system once brought an opposition candidate, late former President Muhammadu Buhari, to power after three failed attempts, Omojuwa explained that the former Anambra State governor is still part of the old system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe question intentionally pretends that I didn\u2019t give the reason why he [Obi] wouldn\u2019t be president,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to give [reason]. I said that he wouldn\u2019t become president on account of certain things. And the funny thing is, even people that were allies with him have been on your podcast, and they\u2019ve also more or less said the same thing in different ways.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a philosopher that says that you cannot continue to do the same thing and expect a different result.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd Peter Obi, he knows that too. You know why he has compromised his position. So Peter Obi was of the system, a beneficiary of the system of the old order.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was governor of Anambra State under APGA. By the time he left, he stopped being governor, he desperately wanted to become a minister. He tried to become aviation minister. It didn\u2019t work out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEventually, Jonathan just made him chairman of the SEC. Anyway, the man [Jonathan] was on his way out. I think this was April 2015, and he still took it, right? It took Buhari to fire him as Chairman of SEC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEventually, he ran as Atiku\u2019s vice presidential candidate, a full-blooded PDP member, becoming a presidential candidate under, you know, running under a PDP ticket.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom there, he then becomes born again. Under this new political system, the Labour Party, he became completely born again, a different, fresh Nigerian that had never been part of the old order.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe enjoyed some miraculous change and perception, and unfortunately for him, that did not carry into the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd then he comes back and says, what changed? What do I need to change? What has he been doing? He\u2019s been going to be with, in bed with the same people that he said were the structure of criminality. He\u2019s shaking hands with them, he\u2019s sitting with them, he\u2019s signing his names with them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, I use the word compromise, but it\u2019s not compromise. He\u2019s gone back exactly where he actually has always been.\u201d<\/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. Nigerian political commentator and social media expert, Japheth Joshua Omojuwa, has given reasons why he believes strongly that Peter Obi will never be President. 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