The former presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi on Friday visited the University of Calabar this morning and donated N20 million to the Faculty of Dentistry to support 400 dental students who are being threåtenéd with expulsion and withdrawal from the university.
The donation, which was made in Calabar in the presence of some of the students of the department, is expected to be utilised for the procurement of more dental chairs.
According to Obi, I am interested in creating awareness that will aid the development of the people, and not discussing politics.
“N20 million will buy five dental chairs. We cannot have a society where we spend millions to buy cars for politicians while young people lack tools to be educated with.
“Our schools lack laboratories, classroom chairs, but politicians are living like stars; this shouldn’t be.
“We must dismantle it and invest in the critical areas of development which are measurable, like education, health and pulling people out of poverty.”
He also noted that governance was about the people, adding that he was struggling to build a society where the child of a nobody could be somebody.
He added that rather than talking about 2027, the nation’s leaders should be talking about the average Nigerian who could not put food on their tables, send their children to school or go to hospitals to get adequate care.
“I was once like these students; that is why I am pushing for us to build a proper society. As for 2027, I will be there, I assure you, and I will contest,” he said.