Nigeria, Aug. 5 -- A Nigerian lawyer and public affairs analyst, Darlington Agomuo, has shed more light on the war of words between Peter Obi and Governor Charles Soludo of Anambra State.

In June, Mr Obi, the 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), pledged to serve for a single four-year tenure if elected the country's president in 2027.

The Nigerian constitution allows elected presidents only two terms of four years each. President Bola Tinubu, from the southern part of the country, is in his first term and is expected to seek re-election in 2027.

Mr Obi's pledge appears to be a strategic assurance to the north that the south would not stay in power for more than eight years.

But Mr Soludo, without mentioning names, app...