In an interview with the Sun on Sunday, May 31, 2026, Dr. Peter Agada, a presidential aspirant of the Labour Party, launched a bold and provocative challenge at Peter Obi, claiming intellectual ownership over key policy ideas associated with the former presidential candidate and expressing full confidence that a public debate between them would expose the limits of Obi’s grasp of his own platform.
Agada acknowledged that Obi was currently abroad and engaged in fundraising activities before making clear why he had chosen a different path. “As you know Obi is out there abroad and part of what he is doing is fundraising. I hope you are aware of why I won’t do the same,” he said, drawing an implicit contrast between their approaches without elaborating further.
He then issued a direct and strikingly confident debate challenge, framing it as a contest he was certain of winning. “If Obi likes let him call for an open debate, he cannot stand me,” he declared, before explaining the basis for his confidence in terms that were as bold as they were specific.
Agada claimed that many of the policy positions Obi had built his public profile around had their intellectual origins in work done by others, himself included. “Most of the things that he speaks, we wrote them,” he alleged, pointing specifically to the widely discussed concept of moving Nigeria from a consumption to a production economy. “There is a concept of consumption to production, Obi knows it at level three and it is an idea in his head he wrote it, but level two and three or ground zero, that is engineering, the back end of how it works, we wrote that,” he said, claiming that while Obi understood the surface of the idea, the deeper technical and policy architecture behind it had been developed by others.
He identified the broader group responsible for that foundational work. “We are the policy framework developers, Mr. Pat Utomi and a group of others,” he said, name-dropping one of Nigeria’s most respected public intellectuals to lend weight to his claim.
Agada closed with a verdict that left no room for ambiguity. “So if Obi debates me, he will collapse,” he declared…..See More
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