Bayo Onanuga, special adviser on information and strategy to the president, has criticised Peter Obi, former presidential candidate of the Labour Party, over his exit from the African Democratic Congress (ADC).
In December 2025, Obi announced his intention to join the coalition-backed ADC.
He officially joined the party on March 7, obtaining his membership card at Agulu ward 2 in Anaocha LGA of Anambra.
Reports had circulated on Saturday that Obi and Rabiu Kwankwaso, the former Kano governor, would leave the ADC.
In a statement on Sunday, Obi confirmed he is quitting the party over “endless court cases, internal battles, suspicion, and division”.
Obi said “the same Nigerian state and its agents that created unnecessary crises and hostility within the Labour Party that forced” him to leave “now appear to be finding their way into the ADC”.
Reacting in a terse post on X, Onanuga described Obi as a “political nomad” and a “politician made of jelly”.
He said Obi left the ADC because he could not contest the party’s presidential ticket against former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and ex-Rivers governor Rotimi Amaechi.
“The political nomad is on the move again. Ignore all those puerile reasons he gave in these illogical musings, a self-serving letter to his mob,” Onanuga wrote.
“Peter Obi is a politician made of jelly, an opportunistic fellow. He can’t fight Atiku or Amaechi for the ticket of ADC.”
The presidential aidea said that Obi had taken “the easy road that will only lead him to doom, like in 2023”.
“He always blames the government without doing a soul-searching of himself. Welcome, Peter to the 2027 race,” Onanuga added.