Nigeria, Aug. 25 -- By the timetable of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), and in accordance with the Electoral Act, the official campaign period for the 2027 Presidential and National Assembly elections commenced on August 19, 2026. Two days later, His Excellency, Mr. Peter Obi, former Governor of Anambra State and presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), formally flagged off his campaign at a world press conference, anchored on a simple but ambitious conviction: "Nigeria can work, and Nigeria must work."



The statement, though simple, captures the central proposition of Obi's 2027 campaign. Nigeria, he argues, is not condemned to perpetual crisis. Its enormous human and material resources c...