Peter Obi pushes for single five-year term for president

Labour Party’s 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has renewed his call for a single five-year term for Nigeria’s president, scrapping the current two-term system.

Speaking in Bauchi on Friday during a visit to Governor Bala Mohammed, Obi said the change would end the culture of presidents spending most of their first term preparing for re-election.

“It should be five years straight. Come in, do the job, and go. No second term,” he said, citing South Korea’s system as a model.

The 2027 presidential hopeful vowed to serve only one term if elected, promising not to stay “a day longer” than four years under current law. He also pledged to strengthen political parties so they are “bigger than the president and governors.”

In response, Governor Mohammed urged Obi to return to the Peoples Democratic Party, saying, “That is where you belong… we must put ego aside for Nigeria’s sake.”