I Don’t Expect People Who Plunged Nigeria Into Present Unemployment, Poverty To Support Me – Peter Obi Lambasts APC, PDP

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi, has said those who brought Nigeria and Nigerians into the present confusion are the ones that were not supporting him.

Obi, who spoke on Friday, shortly after signing the condolence register of late President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Prof George Obiozor, at the National Secretariat of Ohanaeze in Enugu State, however, dispelled the notion that some politicians in the South-East were not supporting him.

The Labour Party’s candidate, in a subtle reference to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC)-led Nigerian government and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) stated that those people who plunged Nigeria and Nigerians into hardship, poverty and unemployment would resist the new system he (Obi) was about to bring.

Obi said, “What is happening is that some people have different opinions; everybody should not support me and everybody will not support me. In fact if everybody supports me, there is danger. Some will disagree.

“Don’t forget that I am trying to change a system where people who brought us here are living off; you think those who leave us in this confusion will support me? No. Some people are living off Nigeria as it is today.

“Some people have a structure that have brought us to this juncture where we produce 133 million people that are poor, where our primary health care have collapsed, where we have 20 million out-of-school children, where we have almost 40 per cent unemployment, with 60 per cent youth unemployment, where we have highest youth job prevent in the world.”

“So they will not support me but I urge all of us to remember that we need to build a new Nigeria. Nobody is against me; what people have is different opinion which is allowed in a democratic dispensation,” he said.

Paying glowing tributes, the former Anambra State governor said Obiozor’s demise created a sense of loss to every Igbo man owed to his contributions to the progress of Igbo nation.

He said, “I feel very sad that he died at this very trying time for our nation. If you know Prof Obiozor and his contributions over the years to our country Nigeria and to the South-East, you will know that every Igbo person feels a sense of loss but we cannot question God. So, that is why this morning I decided to personally come to this Secretariat which, a Secretariat of what holds Igbos together, to sign this condolence.

“For me, I feel sad but we cannot question God. All I can say is; may God Almighty that called him, grant his soul eternal rest in his kingdom, and continue to grant all of us especially his family the fortitude to bear his irreplaceable loss, continue to bless Igbo land and continue to bless Nigeria.”

On whether his demise will in anyway jeopardise his chances of becoming the Nigerian president of Igbo extraction, Obi said no, adding “As far as I am concerned; not at all.”

He maintained that though he was an Igbo man by tribe, he was not vying to be an Igbo president. “I have said it, I am proud of my Nigerianess as I am proud of my Igboness. It is true I hold both of them but I am contesting as a Nigerian and I believe that in this exercise as it is today I am committed that a new Nigeria is possible. I have all it takes in terms of character, competence and everything to start building that new Nigeria.”