The director-general and CEO of Nigeria’s Raw Materials Research and Development Council (RMRDC) urges Peter Obi to shelve his 2027 presidential ambition and back President Bola Tinubu’s re-election. Prof. Nnanyelugo Ike-Muonso makes the appeal during an Abuja interactive session, linking it to the idea that the South should complete an eight-year presidential tenure before power rotates back to the North, reflecting an informal zoning arrangement.
Ike-Muonso frames his call as balancing political timing with national unity, stability and policy continuity, and he ties it to the Tinubu administration’s Renewed Hope Agenda and the role of institutions like the RMRDC in developing local raw materials and supporting industrialisation and value addition. He also encourages Obi to consider joining the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), arguing that party participation could help him engage in policy discussions.
Other coverage focuses on competing political reactions. Vanguard reports that the Kwankwaso National Network (KNN) responds by urging the RMRDC boss to resign and to support Obi instead of campaigning for Tinubu’s re-election.
