After months of speculation and association, the Labour Party’s Presidential Candidate in the last 2023 elections, Peter Obi, has officially declared for the African Democratic Congress (ADC).
Obi and other Igbo political leaders from the South-East geopolitical zone gathered in Enugu, the capital of Enugu State, on Wednesday to make the declaration.
Present in Enugu was the ADC Chairman, Senator David Mark, and other Sokoto State’s former Governor Aminu Tambuwal.
The defectors stated that after months of consultations, they had decided to join the ADC and collaborate with other opposition leaders from across the country to “rescue Nigeria from the poor governance of the All Progressives Congress (APC).”
Speaking at the occasion, Peter Obi said: “Today is an important day, today is the last day of the year of 2025. So we are ending this year with hope that in 2026, we will begin a journey of rescue for our country, for proper socio-economic development that will be unifying and inclusive.
“We have all watched those who benefitted from our democracy sometime, now become accessories to destroying our democracy, either through coercion and gangsterism against the opposition. We can not allow this to happen, we will resist it. We have now seen people who benefitted from our democracy be part of those celebrating electoral flaw, publicly and we are now saying those planning to rig election in Nigeria come 2027, we will resist it by any means lawful and legitimate.
“This happened because we have weak institutions like INEC and we are urging them that in the coming elections, we must do whatever it is to follow the rules and regulations starting by educational qualification for eligibility to sit for any election.
“We can no longer be where they are asking whether this person went to school or not. We have one year now to determine who went to school and who did not go to school.
“We have one year now for people to tell us the school they attended and when they left those schools. We don’t want it to be something we go to court after election and they tell us it is pre-election matter.
“We have pre-election situation now to verify everybody who wants to contest election in Nigeria.”
