The Presidency has described former presidential candidate Peter Obi as the Most Valuable Player on nomadic politcs.

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, the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo 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.”

On his part, Daniel Bwala, who serves as Special Adviser on Policy Communication to the President, recalled that he predicted that Obi won’t run for presidency under the ADC.

He said, “I said it 6 months ago that Obi will not run under ADC, now it is coming to fruition. Not a single tweet from @PeterObi propagandists @ruffydfire” and other half-empty Trojans in CSO and NGO about what they complain about changing parties. If it were a topic on Bwala, Rufai would have made 20 tweets.

“Peter Obi is now the undisputed MVP on nomadic politics; Rufai,  if you have balls, I expect you on Monday morning to be weeping and crying while analyzing the hopelessness of career defectors and let’s see if your customers (Obidients) would not deplete your social media and radio revenue and earnings. I also expect your clown colleague @ayomairoese  (she knows herself) to do the same.”