Yet the naira crisis could disrupt all the frontline candidates in the presidential elections: Tinubu as well as Atiku Abubakar of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party and Peter Obi of the previously insignificant Labour Party...

Ignoring exchange rate fluctuations Buhari's successor – whether Bola Tinubu (APC) Atiku Abubakar (People's Democratic Party) or Peter Obi (Labour Party) – could inherit an official debt stock more than double – in nominal terms – the N35...

Of Nigeria's presidential candidates so far to set out their stall at London's Chatham House think tank the Labour Party's Peter Obi easily won on points on 16 January...

Restrictions on vote buying could benefit the Labour Party's Peter Obi the least pecunious of the top three candidates...

Obi reckoned to have a substantial lead over Tinubu and Atiku by a slew of local and international opinion polls has much going for him (AC Vol 63 No 15 Peter Obi shakes up the political class)...

Their supporters worry about the adulation lavished on Peter Obi the Labour Party (LP) flagbearer who has seen a surge in support and is the candidate of choice for many particularly among young people (AC Vol 63 No 13 Tinubu summons the ghosts of Abacha's kleptocracy)...

Some critics argued that Nwafor was whisked away from the main engine room because he might object to attempts to sideline Peter Obi because he like Obi is Igbo...

Wike has also received overtures from Peter Obi presidential candidate for the small Labour Party who is holding fundraising rallies in the United States this month (AC Vol 63 No 15 Peter Obi shakes up the political class)...

He has met with Peter Obi as well as the APC's presidential candidate Bola Ahmed Tinubu in Nigeria and in Europe...

A third option for Wike would be Peter Obi and the Labour Party...

But Peter Obi the geeky former governor of Anambra state is upending the political establishment's complacency about next year's presidential elections...

The longest-ever presidential election campaign in Nigerian history is into its next more intense phase after the three leading candidates – Atiku Abubakar Peter Obi and Bola Ahmed Tinubu – have named their running mates...

The only significant defection from the PDP so far has been Peter Obi the multi-millionaire banker and former governor of Anambra state who is now running an insurgent-style campaign on the platform of the Labour Party...

Both of them could feel the heat from Peter Obi the former governor of Anambra State who is standing for the presidency on the ticket of the Labour Party and promises a mix of competent economic management targeted social programmes and to fight corruption seriously...