Peter Obi's Sudden Lead Ahead Of 2023 Polls Makes It To London TimesPeter Obi's Sudden Lead Ahead Of 2023 Polls Makes It To London Times

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Peter Obi's Sudden Lead Ahead Of 2023 Polls Makes It To London TimesPeter Obi's Sudden Lead Ahead Of 2023 Polls Makes It To London Times

His excellency Mr Peter Obi the leading Presidential candidate of Labour party!!! The 001 of Obidient movement!!! The most talked about presidential candidate in Nigeria has made it to Sunday London times.

Peter Obi, the 61-year-old ‘youngster’ who wants to clean up Nigeria

- The presidential candidate has enjoyed a rapid rise from outsider to election frontrunner. Is his country ready?

Peter Obi, with his wife Margaret, has promised to tackle corruption in Nigeria’s political system.

- Peter Obi, with his wife Margaret, has promised to tackle corruption in Nigeria’s political system.

In Lagos there is no arguing with traffic. So when crowds backing a smiling, mild-mannered outsider for president brought gridlock to Nigeria’s teeming megacity late last year, it proved that their man had arrived as a force to be reckoned with.

Afrobeats music ringing in their ears, thousands of supporters of Peter Obi filled the streets. Many converged near the Lekki tollgate, where in 2020 soldiers had massacred people protesting against the same corruption and authoritarianism that Obi has now promised to eradicate.

“We are taking back our country,” said Chijioke Chuwunyere, a tech consultant, during the march on October 1, Nigeria’s Independence Day. “This is a chance to right all the wrongs.”

A few months earlier Obi, 61, had been an unfancied long shot