A former National Chairman of the Inter-Party Advisory Council, Peter Ameh, has stated that the North favours Labour Party Presidential Candidate, Peter Obi, to win the upcoming 2027 general elections over President Bola Tinubu.
Ameh, a supporter of the Labour Party’s Presidential Candidate in the 2023 general elections, also said the North understood and accepted Obi’s single-term Presidency proposal.
The ex-IPAC Chair made the statements on Thursday evening during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today.
He noted that the former Anambra State Governor would not be learning on the job, having previously been in government and gathering experience in the private sector, adding that his “compassion, discipline, character and competence,” made him a favourable choice of the North.
“I am from northern Nigeria, and we know, as I speak today, that the current available decision of our people favours Peter Obi.
“The north is a very diverse place and a very complex political territory. For me, I don’t think the north is as difficult as people want to make us believe.
“The northern Nigeria that you see today – Kaduna, Kano, Sokoto and all that – his (Obi’s) performance there was very clear, even in Plateau. We want a free election that is fair and that is credible.
“The north is more politically understanding than any other region of this country. Peter Obi has made an emphatic statement and a public declaration that ‘I want to do only one term so that I don’t tilt the balance of our unwritten arrangement’.
“We should be looking for someone who has compassion, discipline, character and competence, and not about ethnicity or religion.”
Ameh equally stated that the North had rejected the presidency and candidacy of President Bola Tinubu over widespread hardship, resulting from his economic policies, citing the rejection as the reason for changes in appointments by the ruling All Progressives Congress.
“It is clear that the next election is not going to be the same thing. And that is why you see the struggle to give appointments and change certain things by the government. Even the Chief of Staff is holding meetings with the northern House of Representatives because they know the people are not happy.
“We are going to challenge all the illegal processes that were used to undermine our voters and the outcome of the election, and we are going to put mechanisms in place to defend the popularity that Peter Obi has gotten and the acceptance he now enjoys.”
