Former Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi has said he would serve only one term of four years if elected Nigeria’s president.
Obi made the remark in a clip from an interview scheduled to air on News Central TV on Thursday.
“I want to be a one-term president because of stability. I would not stay a day, with a gun to my head, longer than four years,” Obi said in the video circulating online.
The former Anambra State governor also criticised the economic policies of President Bola Tinubu’s administration, citing rising borrowing levels and the increasing cost of living.
According to Obi, Nigeria is experiencing one of its most difficult economic periods.
Obi contested the 2023 presidential election on the platform of the Labour Party, finishing third behind Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress and former Vice President Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party.
Since the election, Obi has remained one of the country’s leading opposition figures and a frequent critic of the government’s economic reforms.