{"id":375038,"date":"2025-07-08T22:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T22:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/ng\/2025\/07\/08\/peter-obi-cant-be-president-in-2027-should-wait-for-2031\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T22:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T22:39:09","slug":"peter-obi-cant-be-president-in-2027-should-wait-for-2031","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/ng\/2025\/07\/08\/peter-obi-cant-be-president-in-2027-should-wait-for-2031\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Obi Can&#8217;t Be\u00a0President In 2027, Should Wait For 2031"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>President Bola Tinubu\u2019s Special Adviser on Policy Communication, Daniel Bwala, has urged former presidential candidate, Peter Obi to wait till it reach his turn to be president in 2031.<\/p>\n<p>Bwala stressed that no amount of effort made by Obi, ahead of 2027,\u00a0 will make him win presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Monday during an interview with Channels Television, Mr. Bwala noted that the former Labour Party\u2019s presidential candidate can only be the campaign Director General in 2027 for Africa Democratic Congress.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cPeter Obi is not even going to be Vice Presidential candidate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is going to be DG of the campaign with the hopes that he will be President in 2031.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0June 12: You Were Busy Shopping In Malaysia While Others Fights For Democracy \u2013 Bwala Knocks Obi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeter Obi now is a non-issue. He\u2019s a non starter. Already, he has conceded his presidential ambition to Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow he has become a second fiddle but he needs to fight for the vice presidential ticket with Rotimi Amaechi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd from what we are hearing they have convinced him that he will be Director General of the campaign to lead the movement, and that when they win election, Atiku will do one time and then Peter Obi will come back to become president.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-7\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div data-infor-trackid=\"966303\" data-infor-trackbid=\"1\" class=\"infor-target\" id=\"infor-1053956965\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1751998026_633_300x250@2x.png\" alt=\"\"   width=\"600\" height=\"500\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Bola Tinubu\u2019s Special Adviser on Policy Communication, Daniel Bwala, has urged former presidential candidate, Peter Obi to wait till it reach his turn to be president in 2031. Bwala stressed that no amount of effort made by Obi, ahead of 2027,\u00a0 will make him win presidential election. Speaking on Monday during an interview with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":375039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-375038","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Peter Obi Can&#039;t Be\u00a0President In 2027, Should Wait For 2031 - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/ng\/2025\/07\/08\/peter-obi-cant-be-president-in-2027-should-wait-for-2031\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Peter Obi Can&#039;t Be\u00a0President In 2027, Should Wait For 2031 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President Bola Tinubu\u2019s Special Adviser on Policy Communication, Daniel Bwala, has urged former presidential candidate, Peter Obi to wait till it reach his turn to be president in 2031. 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