Former Secretary General of the Federation Babachir Lawal has alleged that Peter Obi was unwilling to compete in a primary election within the ADC, insisting instead on being handed the presidential ticket as a consensus candidate without facing any other aspirants.
Speaking in an interview from 5:55 with Arise TV, Babachir Lawal said, “A politician who fears elections has no business winning one. He doesn’t want to participate in primaries. He prefers to be the consensus candidate and that consensus must be him. Now put yourself in the position of our party leadership. This is a political party of heavyweights, and everybody some with ambition, some like us with no ambition the only way you can make progress is to create a level playing field for everybody.”
He alleged that Obi repeated the same position consistently from the moment he joined the party, making it a recurring theme that he would be on the 2027 ballot and that he would not participate in what he called a dollarised convention.
According to him, that mantra carried a clear underlying message that Obi was only willing to remain in a party where his candidacy was guaranteed and unchallenged, and that any party serious about internal democracy was never truly compatible with what Obi was looking for…Read_More…