{"id":174823,"date":"2025-08-18T11:53:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T10:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/farotimi-questions-obi-on-one-term-proposal"},"modified":"2025-08-18T13:08:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T12:08:54","slug":"farotimi-questions-obi-on-one-term-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/farotimi-questions-obi-on-one-term-proposal","title":{"rendered":"Farotimi Questions Obi on One-Term Proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>A lawyer and human rights activist, Dele Farotimi, has shared his thoughts on the proposed one-term presidency by the 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi.<\/p>\n<p>Farotimi said that it was not the first time the former Governor of Anambra State was making the proposal, noting that Obi also said it during the 2023 election cycle<\/p>\n<p>However, he said that Obi\u2019s motive for the proposal should be interrogated, adding that the issue is beyond mere declarations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA man says he\u2019s going to spend one term. One term to do what? I think we should ask that question,\u201d he said in an interview published by Channels Television on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I have a vision that can be contained within my lifetime, then it\u2019s not a vision, it\u2019s just an ambition. If it\u2019s a vision, I will need my children\u2019s children to complete that task.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, if a man says, \u2018I\u2019m going to run for one term.\u2019 I am more interested in asking questions about his plans. What would you do with the one term?\u201d He added.<\/p>\n<p>However, Farotimi added that someone who already has his plans for the country penned down would not require many years to execute them and bring about the needed change.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, some people like former presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Muhammadu Buhari completed two terms in office without doing anything, while the current administration had spent over two years in office with nothing to show for it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObasanjo had eight years; what did he do with them? Buhari had eight years; what did he do with it? He ruined Nigeria. Tinubu has had two years, he\u2019s taking us back like 50 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, it\u2019s not really about how much time the person spends; it\u2019s a function of what they are doing with the time that they have,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Obi had announced that he would only do a one term of 4 years as President of Nigeria and return power to the north in accordance with the gentleman agreement between the north and south since a southern president is already in power.<\/p>\n<p>Obi\u2019s proposal has since received a wide range of reactions, with some people saying the former Governor of Anambra State was becoming too ambitious.<\/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. A lawyer and human rights activist, Dele Farotimi, has shared his thoughts on the proposed one-term presidency by the 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi. Farotimi said that it was not the first time the former Governor of Anambra State was making the proposal, noting that Obi also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":174822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[97,9586,254,479,222],"class_list":["post-174823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-buhari","tag-farotimi","tag-nigeria","tag-obasanjo","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>Farotimi Questions Obi on One-Term Proposal - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A lawyer and human rights activist, Dele Farotimi, has shared his thoughts on the proposed one-term presidency by the 20 ...\" \/>\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\/farotimi-questions-obi-on-one-term-proposal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Farotimi Questions Obi on One-Term Proposal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A lawyer and human rights activist, Dele Farotimi, has shared his thoughts on the proposed one-term presidency by the 20 ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/farotimi-questions-obi-on-one-term-proposal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-08-18T10:53:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-18T12:08:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1755506480.82389.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"539\" \/>\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\/farotimi-questions-obi-on-one-term-proposal#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/farotimi-questions-obi-on-one-term-proposal\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Farotimi Questions Obi on One-Term Proposal\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-08-18T10:53:24+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-08-18T12:08:54+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/farotimi-questions-obi-on-one-term-proposal\"},\"wordCount\":401,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/farotimi-questions-obi-on-one-term-proposal#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1755506480.82389.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Buhari\",\"Farotimi\",\"Nigeria\",\"Obasanjo\",\"Peter Obi\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/farotimi-questions-obi-on-one-term-proposal#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/farotimi-questions-obi-on-one-term-proposal\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/farotimi-questions-obi-on-one-term-proposal\",\"name\":\"Farotimi Questions Obi on One-Term Proposal - 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