NDC Fires Back At Lauretta Onochie Over Report Claiming Peter Obi Has No Political Party

The Director of New Media for the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), Theo Abu Agada, has criticised former presidential aide and African Democratic Congress (ADC) chieftain Lauretta Onochie over a social media post that omitted Peter Obi’s political party.....KINDLY READ THE FULL STORY HERE▶

The exchange followed a post shared by Onochie on Saturday, July 4, 2026, featuring an infographic that identified the political parties of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and former Vice President Atiku Abubakar but listed no political platform for Peter Obi.

Reacting through his official X account, Abu Agada rejected the portrayal, insisting that Obi is the presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress.

He maintained that the former Anambra State governor is contesting under the NDC and dismissed the suggestion that he does not belong to any political party.

The NDC spokesman further stated that the party had already fulfilled the necessary requirements for the 2027 presidential election by submitting the names of its presidential and vice-presidential candidates to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

According to him, the candidates’ details have already been uploaded to the electoral body’s portal.

“Madam Lauretta, His Excellency Peter Obi, CON, has a party. His party is the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), the leading and main opposition party in Nigeria.

“I don’t know what you mean by ‘No Party’ in your poorly done infographic. The last time I checked, we had uploaded the names of our presidential and vice-presidential candidates on the INEC portal,” he wrote.