Former Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has declared that he would serve only one term of four years if elected President of Nigeria, insisting he would not remain in office beyond that period under any circumstance.
Obi made the statement in a clip from an interview scheduled to air on News Central TV on Thursday, May 14, 2026.
“I want to be a one-term president because of stability. I would not stay a day longer than four years, even with a gun to my head,” he said in the viral interview clip.
The former Anambra State governor also criticised the current administration’s economic policies, particularly borrowing and the rising cost of living, stating that Nigeria was facing one of its toughest economic periods.
Obi contested the 2023 presidential election on the platform of the Labour Party and finished third behind President Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress and former Vice President Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party.
Since the 2023 election, Obi has remained one of the leading opposition voices, frequently criticising the Tinubu administration’s economic reforms and governance policies.
