A senior member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Segun Sowunmi, has expressed doubts over the ability of former Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi to pose a strong challenge to President Bola Tinubu in the upcoming 2027 general elections.
Sowunmi made the remarks on Thursday, the 15th of January, 2026, during an interview on Channels Television’s programme Politics Today, where he responded to questions about the political landscape in the Southeast.
Commenting on Obi’s prospects, he said, “The people sitting in authority at governors level in the Southeast were not that inspirational. You have to go back and look at the people sitting there now.
“Some of them are delivering on values and assignments. If they are inspirational leaders, none of them can Obi run over just like that. It’s not as easy as that.
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“We created that movement believing that we should be able to tour that glass ceiling so that our Southeast brothers can get it done.
“Unfortunately, his inability to tame the excessive bigotry and the anger and the quarrel made a lot of people to push back.”