Anambra State Governor, Chukwuma Soludo, has said that anyone offering to serve for one term in office as an elected public officer needs a psychiatric examination.
Soludo, who spoke during the Anambra South endorsement rally in support of his second term bid, challenged anyone in support of the notion to tell him where it had ever happened.
He said that the Nigerian Constitution does not limit a person to one term in office but allows for two terms in office.
“How can anybody, anybody with brain, you think you are talking to fools? You come to people and said, ‘I will do only one term.’ Anybody, any politician who said that must be sent to a psychiatric home, because the person must have some mental problems. When the constitution allows you to stay up to eight years, they would come and tell us, ‘I’m going to serve one term.’ Tell us where it has ever happened?” he said.
This is coming a month after the 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, said he is willing to serve only a single term as Nigeria’s president but only if a coalition agreement demands it, emphasising that his motivation is not personal ambition but national progress.
“If the agreement is one term, I will leave on May 28, 2031 — not even May 29,” Obi declared during a widely attended XSpace session titled #PeterObiOnParallelFacts, which drew over 10,000 live listeners. “I am not desperate to be president. I am desperate to see Nigeria work.”
Speaking on coalition politics, Obi emphasised the need for discipline and integrity in political partnerships.
He recalled his own experience respecting zoning arrangements in Anambra State, even at personal political cost, as a demonstration of his commitment to fairness and national unity.
“If the coalition is about sharing tickets and power for its sake, count me out. I’m not interested,” he said. “I want a coalition that stops the killings in Borno, puts food on people’s tables, and gets our industries working.”
