Presidential spokesperson, Bayo Onanuga, has said former presidential candidate Peter Obi only pursues the easy road that will lead to his doom.

This was after Obi announced his defection from the African Democratic Congress (ADC), which he joined a few months ago from Labour Party that fielded him as presidential candidate in 2023.

In a statement, Obi revealed that he decided to leave the ADC not because he was treated badly by the party’s National Chairman, Senator David Mark, nor because of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar. He also stated that nothing wrong was personally done to him by other respected leaders in the party, whom he would continue to respect.

He, however, stated that the same Nigerian state and its agents that created unnecessary crises and hostility within the Labour Party that forced him to leave now appear to be finding their way into the ADC, with endless court cases, internal battles, suspicion, and division, instead of focusing on deeper national problems and playing politics built more on control and exclusion than on service and nation-building.

Reacting, Onanuga stated that Obi actually left the ADC because he couldn’t confront the other presidential hopefuls for the party’s ticket.

He said on X, “We told you so. The political nomad is on the move again. Ignore all those puerile reasons he gave in these illogical musings, a self-serving letter to his mob. Peter Obi is a politician made of jelly, an opportunistic fellow. He can’t fight Atiku or Amaechi for the ticket of ADC. He pursues the easy road, that will only lead him to doom, like in 2023. He always blames the government without doing a soul-searching of himself. Welcome, Peter to the 2027 race.”