The presidency on Sunday criticised a former presidential candidate, Peter Obi, describing him as inconsistent and accused him of misleading his supporters.

Bayo Onanuga, spokesperson for the presidency stated this in a post on X on Sunday in reaction to Mr Obi’s announcement of his exit from the African Democratic Congress (ADC).

“We told you so. 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,” Mr Onanuga said.

Mr Onanuga called Mr Obi “a politician made of jelly, an opportunistic fellow,” adding that “he can’t fight Atiku or Amaechi for the ticket of ADC.”

The presidential spokesperson further lashed out at Mr Obi for always blaming the government of President Bola Tinubu for internal crisis rocking the parties he has left in recent times.

According to him, Mr Obi is on a easy road to doom.

“He pursues 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,” Mr Onanuga said.

Earlier on Sunday, Mr Obi announced his exit from the ADC coalition which he joined on December 31, 2025, when he dumped Labour Party.

In his resignation letter, Mr Obi said, “my decision to leave the ADC is not because our highly respected Chairman, Senator David Mark, treated me badly, nor because my leader and elder brother, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, or any other respected leaders did anything personally wrong to me. I will continue to respect them.”

He added, “However, the same Nigerian state and its agents that created unnecessary crises and hostility within the Labour Party that forced me to leave now appear to be finding their way into the ADC, with endless court cases, internal battles, suspicion, and division, instead of focusing on deeper national problems and playing politics built more on control and exclusion than on service and nation-building.”