{"id":178329,"date":"2025-09-10T18:50:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T17:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/obis-single-term-proposal-laughable-and-impossible"},"modified":"2025-09-10T20:05:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T19:05:55","slug":"obis-single-term-proposal-laughable-and-impossible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/obis-single-term-proposal-laughable-and-impossible","title":{"rendered":"Obi&#8217;s Single-Term Proposal Laughable and Impossible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>A Commissioner-designate in Edo State, Kassim Afegbua, has chided the 2023 Labour Party\u2019s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, over his single-term proposal if elected president come 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Afegbua stated that the proposal was not only laughable but also impossible.<\/p>\n<p>He made this statement on Wednesday, while responding to questions in \u2018Sunrise Daily\u2019, a programme on Channels Television, stressing that four years is not enough to transform Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody should tell you he\u2019s coming from the south to spend four years because for me that is just like telling a bogus lie.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know that it is not possible. One term is inadequate to turn things around positively in Nigeria,\u201d he claimed.<\/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 Commissioner-designate in Edo State, Kassim Afegbua, has chided the 2023 Labour Party\u2019s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, over his single-term proposal if elected president come 2027. Afegbua stated that the proposal was not only laughable but also impossible. 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