“Obi Is Running For A Political Office. He’s Not Running To Become Nigeria’s Spiritual Head-Farotimi

According to a video on Channels Television on Monday November 9 2026, human rights activist and lawyer, Dele Farotimi, has slammed Nigerians who are demanding that Mr. Peter Obi should show them his angel halo and his wings before they can vote for him in the 2027 general election.

Farotimi, who appeared virtually on the Channels TV Morning Brief programme, was asked about his support for Peter Obi and why some Nigerians still doubt the former Anambra State governor.

The activist said Peter Obi, to his understanding, is running for a political office and not running to become the spiritual head of Nigeria.

“Peter Obi, to my understanding, is running for a political office. He’s not running to become the spiritual head of Nigeria,” Farotimi said.

According to him, it is ridiculous that in a race where the president is somebody as despicable as the incumbent, and where the others are patently as unqualified as they are, Nigerians are still demanding that Peter Obi should show them his angel halo.

“It is ridiculous that in a race where the president is somebody as despicable as the incumbent, where the others are patently as unqualified as they are, we are still demanding that Peter Obi should show us his angel halo and his wings so that we will know that he’s miles better than the people he’s running against,” he stated.

Farotimi said he is not going to waste his time campaigning to anybody on those terms because the difference between Obi and the others is too clear.

“I’m not going to waste my time campaigning to anybody on those terms. It is too clear,” he said.

He explained that if people are not content with finding the capacity to think for themselves, he is not going to insult himself by beginning to explain to them.

“If people are not content with finding the capacity to think for themselves, I’m not going to insult myself by beginning to explain to them,” Farotimi said.

According to him, the APC is an existential threat, and if anybody cannot see that, it is because those who are obliged to sell their candidacy and explain the difference between themselves and the APC have failed woefully.

“Do I tell them to eat? APC is an existential threat. And if anybody cannot see that, it is because those who are obliged to sell their candidacy and explain their difference between themselves and the APC have failed woefully,” he declared.

Farotimi recalled that in 2022, when he was speaking for Mr. Peter Obi, he said categorically that the system had the last opportunity offered to it for a peaceful transition that may yet save the perpetrators of the evil from a bloody account for what they have done to Nigerians.

“So me not campaigning, if you have been very careful in following my interventions, you will recall that in 2022 when I was speaking for Mr. Peter Obi, I did say categorically that this system has had the last opportunity offered to it for a peaceful transition that may yet save the perpetrators of the evil from a bloody account for what they have done to Nigerians and to Nigeria,” he said.

He said 2023 came and INEC did what it did, adding that Nigerians don’t have a result that explains how they ended up with the person in power.

“Of course, 2023 came. INEC did what it did. We don’t have a result that explains to us how we ended up with the person in power,” Farotimi said.

“All we had was a declaration in the middle of the night by INEC and the legal seal rendered on that illegality and that is what has forced this on us,” he stated.

According to him, in the last three years, Nigerians have been subjected to all kinds of plagues, from “subsidy is gone” that has rendered more Nigerians multi-dimensionally poor, to the hydra-headed problem of insecurity.

“Now we are where we are. In the last three years, Nigerians have been subjected to all kinds of plagues, from ‘subsidy is gone’ that has rendered more Nigerians multi-dimensionally poor,” he explained.

“From that to the hydra-headed problem of insecurity that came in the wake of the APC, mollycoddled by the APC, evidently sponsored by persons within the hierarchy of the APC,” Farotimi concluded.

“Nigerians have never had it so bad and they are still waiting for me or anyone else to come and campaign to them that they need to get rid of this plague.”

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