The Eastern Union (EU), a political group advocating for Nigeria’s Old Eastern Region, has voiced strong support for Peter Obi’s recent defection to the African Democratic Congress (ADC).
Obi, the 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate, formally joined the ADC on December 31, 2025.
In a statement by its National President, Hon. Charles Anike, the EU praised Obi’s “bold and timely” decision, stating it would compel necessary adjustments within the ADC ahead of the 2027 elections.
Anike accused the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of infiltrating the Labour Party with “political moles” to destabilize it, following Obi’s impactful 2023 candidacy. He claimed the APC’s strategy is to create crises in major opposition parties to sustain its “stolen mandate.”
The EU declared that Obi’s move has revived public hope and vowed to mobilize Nigerians to “reclaim their country” from what it termed “political desperados.” Anike described the defection as a “multiplied encouragement” and a “dead blow” to the APC.
Dismissing recent defections of some state governors as “empty political threats,” Anike asserted that Nigerian youths are “warming up to shock” President Bola Tinubu and the APC in the 2027 elections.
Dele Fashomi, seasoned journalist and communication teacher, is a holder of Master of Arts degree in Communication and Language Arts from the University of Ibadan in 1992/93.
Earlier, he had bagged a Bachelor degree from the same university in 1984, after which he proceeded to the Nigerian Institute of Journalism, Lagos, in 1990, for a postgraduate diploma in Journalism.
He had done many courses in communication, including the EU-BBC Editing Course in 2002.
Mr. Fashomi combines effectively the practice, research and teaching of communication. And to date, he has published two academic works in communication: Issues in Communication Technology and Policy (2010) and Economic and Social Issues in Advertising and PR (2013).
He had his first break in the Nigerian media in Concord Newspapers in 1990 and today, he has over two and half decades experience earned in several newspapers.
He has been part of many start-ups, such as The Republic (1987), The Comet (1999), The Anchor 2001 – 2002; Sun Newspapers (2003); Westerner newsmagazine (2005 – 2010) as Editor; National Life (2011) as Sunday Editor, and Newswatch Newspapers (2012- 2016) as Daily Editor.
Dele Fashomi is now the Publisher/Editor-in-Chief of Newstide247.com newspaper online, which he started in July 2015. He is also into biography writing, with many books in his trail, some of which he wrote alone and one he co- authored with his mentor, Mr Dare Babarinsa, entitled: Olabiyi Durojaiye – DARE TO BE DiFFERENT. He also guided and collaborated with Pa Olatunji Odusanya in writing his autobiography – AGAINST ALL ODDS. There are many other books in the works under his pen.
