Director of News at Arise Television, Sumner Sambo, has called on opposition figures across the country to take a more active role in the ongoing protest against the amendment of the Electoral Act.
Sambo made the call during an appearance on the programme Prime Time on Monday, the 9th of February, 2026, where he stressed that the demonstration should not be reduced to a one-man effort associated solely with former Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi.
It will be recalled that Obi on Monday, the 9th of February, participated in the “Occupy National Assembly” protest, which was organised to oppose the Senate’s rejection of electronic transmission of election results.
Commenting on the development, Sambo said, “If you look at what they are doing, it’s akin to what actually happened prior to 2014 and close to 2015 when you have the likes of Buhari, El-Rufai and all of that on the back of vehicles all going around to actually kick against some of the things that the PDP was doing while in power then.
“And I’m very sure that if President Tinubu was in the opposition now, he would have joined the team. So I mean, whatever they did today is actually what’s expected of them.
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“I expected more opposition leaders to come out. They should not just make it a Peter Obi thing.
“More opposition leaders should have come out; where was Atiku? Are they really serious about this, or are they just mouthing it because citizens want it?
“But the opposition should actually wake up and do more, because these guys who are in government now while they were in the opposition, I can tell you that this government wouldn’t have been sleeping fine by now.”
He maintained that a stronger, more visible opposition presence was necessary to give weight to public demands and hold the current administration accountable.