{"id":172402,"date":"2025-08-04T08:17:37","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T07:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/north-fears-obi-support-means-extra-years-for-south"},"modified":"2025-08-04T09:21:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T08:21:43","slug":"north-fears-obi-support-means-extra-years-for-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/north-fears-obi-support-means-extra-years-for-south","title":{"rendered":"North Fears Obi Support Means Extra Years for South"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Socio-political activist, Aisha Yesufu, has revealed that Peter Obi, the 2023 presidential flagbearer of the Labour Party, LP, has assured her in private conversations that he will serve a single term if elected as president.<\/p>\n<p>She stated this on X on Sunday, quote-tweeting Obi\u2019s post in which he reiterated his desire to spend one term in office.<\/p>\n<p>According to Yesufu, the former Anambra governor always maintained the stance from when he contested in 2023, using Nelson Mandela as a template.<\/p>\n<p>Yesufu also suggested that the North was worried that supporting Obi might lead to extra four years for the South.<\/p>\n<p>She wrote: \u201cI, Aisha Yesufu can confirm that Mr Peter Gregory Obi has always said he would do just a term even before the 2023 election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI used to argue with him that one term is not enough and he can\u2019t just refuse to contest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn fact, I told him on several occasions while we were campaigning in 2022 that the people will not allow him to do just a term. He would use Nelson Mandela as example. He would explain that if one was ready to really work that a term was more than enough!<\/p>\n<p>Early this year, I went back to him to ask If he truly meant what he said about doing just a term.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany from the north had shown concern over support for Peter Obi might lead to an extra 4 years for the south.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI told him that I was going to speak of his promise to do one term only publicly and I needed his confirmation on doing a term as my integrity mattered to me and I wouldn\u2019t want to say something and it turns out not to be so.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr Peter Obi once again gave me his word that he was going to do only one term.\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. Socio-political activist, Aisha Yesufu, has revealed that Peter Obi, the 2023 presidential flagbearer of the Labour Party, LP, has assured her in private conversations that he will serve a single term if elected as president. She stated this on X on Sunday, quote-tweeting Obi\u2019s post in which he reiterated his desire to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":172401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[2779,254,222],"class_list":["post-172402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-aisha-yesufu","tag-nigeria","tag-peter-obi"],"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>North Fears Obi Support Means Extra Years for South - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Socio-political activist, Aisha Yesufu, has revealed that Peter Obi, the 2023 presidential flagbearer of the Labour Part ...\" \/>\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\/north-fears-obi-support-means-extra-years-for-south\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"North Fears Obi Support Means Extra Years for South\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Socio-political activist, Aisha Yesufu, has revealed that Peter Obi, the 2023 presidential flagbearer of the Labour Part ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/north-fears-obi-support-means-extra-years-for-south\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-08-04T07:17:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-04T08:21:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1754283224.943278.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=\"2 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\/north-fears-obi-support-means-extra-years-for-south#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/north-fears-obi-support-means-extra-years-for-south\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"North Fears Obi Support Means Extra Years for South\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-08-04T07:17:37+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-08-04T08:21:43+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/north-fears-obi-support-means-extra-years-for-south\"},\"wordCount\":325,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/north-fears-obi-support-means-extra-years-for-south#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1754283224.943278.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Aisha Yesufu\",\"Nigeria\",\"Peter Obi\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/north-fears-obi-support-means-extra-years-for-south#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/north-fears-obi-support-means-extra-years-for-south\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/north-fears-obi-support-means-extra-years-for-south\",\"name\":\"North Fears Obi Support Means Extra Years for South - 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