Details of an agreement between Peter Obi and Rabiu Kwankwaso over the 2027 presidential election have emerged, with Kwankwaso confirming that the pact provides for Obi to serve a single four-year term if elected president.
Kwankwaso, the vice-presidential candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), disclosed this during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Monday.
He was responding to questions about Obi’s repeated pledge to serve only one term in office if elected president in 2027.
Kwankwaso said he had no reason to doubt Obi’s commitment to the promise, expressing confidence that the former Anambra State governor would honour the agreement.
“I personally believe him, and I don’t think, based on what I now know about him, he will renege. I don’t think he will change his mind when the time comes,” Kwankwaso said.
He said the arrangement between them was not based solely on verbal assurances, revealing that the agreement had been formally documented.
“We are all gentlemen, even though we have accepted to even put it on paper. We have done one (agreement) for the party, and we have done another one for us,” he stated.
Asked to clarify the content of the agreement, Kwankwaso said it provides for power to return to northern Nigeria after Obi completes a four-year tenure between 2027 and 2031.
“The agreement is what you said—that after four years we will come together, team together as a group, as party, friends, brothers, and involve everybody to work together so that after his term, or our term of four years, 2027 to 2031, then it comes back to the North, and that’s the general agreement,” he said.
Obi has consistently maintained that he does not require two terms to address Nigeria’s challenges, arguing that four years would be enough to implement his reform agenda.
