{"id":238959,"date":"2026-01-08T06:32:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T06:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/abdulkareem-reveals-why-peter-obi-is-seeking-adc-presidential-ticket\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T06:32:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T06:32:43","slug":"abdulkareem-reveals-why-peter-obi-is-seeking-adc-presidential-ticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/abdulkareem-reveals-why-peter-obi-is-seeking-adc-presidential-ticket\/","title":{"rendered":"Abdulkareem Reveals Why Peter Obi Is Seeking ADC Presidential Ticket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">\n<p>The Director\u2011General of Big TENT Nigeria, <strong>Ibrahim Abdulkareem<\/strong>, has explained why former Labour Party presidential candidate<span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Peter Obi<\/strong><\/a> is pursuing the African Democratic Congress (ADC) presidential ticket\u00a0<\/span>ahead of the 2027 general elections.<\/p>\n<p>Abdulkareem made the remarks on Wednesday during an interview on Prime Time, a programme on Arise Television, and insisted that Obi\u2019s motives extend beyond personal ambition.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to viewers, Abdulkareem said Obi was not simply demanding the ADC presidential ticket as an entitlement, but was motivated by a broader vision for national unity.<\/p>\n<p>Abdulkareem said, <em>\u201cPeter Obi didn\u2019t just come out and join the ADC. He was part of the ADC from the first day, and he made it very clear to everybody who wanted to hear.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cHe said I would be part of this coalition if it\u2019s not just for us to grab power and give to somebody, but if it\u2019s for us to come together and create a system that would work for Nigeria, because Nigerians have been longing for good and genuine leadership.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAnd he has done what none of these people, including President Bola <a href=\"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.name.ng\/news\/tinubu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tinubu <\/a>himself, has done because what he did is that before fully declaring for the ADC, he talked to the Obidients.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cNobody at all his meetings, there\u2019s no forum anywhere that Peter Obi is asking somebody to give him this ADC ticket on a platter of gold.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWhat he said is that what he has done in his previous engagement with people, what Nigerians have said and also putting something that would unite us together, most especially giving the young Nigerians who want to see a new Nigeria that hope of a better nation.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 2 -->\n                                                                                                            <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Director\u2011General of Big TENT Nigeria, Ibrahim Abdulkareem, has explained why former Labour Party presidential candidate\u00a0Peter Obi is pursuing the African Democratic Congress (ADC) presidential ticket\u00a0ahead of the 2027 general elections. Abdulkareem made the remarks on Wednesday during an interview on Prime Time, a programme on Arise Television, and insisted that Obi\u2019s motives extend beyond [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":238888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[2593,274],"class_list":["post-238959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-ibrahim-abdulkareem","tag-peter-obi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Peter-Obi.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}