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  • “This country is sick and should not be handed over to a sick person”- Obi tells Nigerians

    “This country is sick and should not be handed over to a sick person”- Obi tells Nigerians

    The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has advised Nigerians not to hand over the mandate of governing a sick country like Nigeria to a sick man, saying “This country is sick and should not be handed over to a sick person.”

    Obi stated this at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka in continuation of his nationwide campaigns ahead of the February 25 presidential election.

    In his words: “This country is sick and should not be handed over to a sick person. I am not saying that anyone is sick. We have been here for over two hours, we don’t want people who can’t stand for 30 minutes,” Obi said in an interactive session with the varsity’s Business School.

    "This country is sick and should not be handed over to a sick person"- Obi tells Nigerians

    He identified character and trust as two cardinal attributes to look out for in the recruitment of leaders to pilot the affairs of the nation for the next four years.

    “In the United States during elections, they go for debates. Somebody once asked Barack Obama questions that were personal and he answered. But here in Nigeria, somebody wants to contest elections, we don’t know his real age, we don’t know his name, we don’t know the schools he attended. Nobody knows his real identity and he is pushing to lead everybody.

    “My name is Peter Obi. I can say I went to Christ The King College, and went to the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Both the VC today, the DVC today, were my schoolmates. We came to university the same year and left the same year. The people I went to school with, I can see them here today, my seniors and my juniors. How come we now have people who do not have classmates? This is very important”

    The former Anambra State governor, however, admitted that everybody can’t be educated equally or formally, but everybody’s records must be straight.

    “Afe Babalola once told me he never had the opportunity of going to a formal school. There is nothing wrong with that. There are so many people who have done well in life and never went to formal school.

    On corruption, he said, “If you say you will fight corruption, let’s go to the road you have passed and see what is remaining there after you left,” stressing that “this year’s election must be based on competence as it requires physical and mental energy. It is not a retirement job.”

  • “The schools that I didn’t roof as a trader, you roof them as a professor”- Obi slams Soludo

    “The schools that I didn’t roof as a trader, you roof them as a professor”- Obi slams Soludo

    The Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has replied to Anambra State Governor, Prof. Charles Soludo, following his antagonistic letter.

    Obi stressed that the schools that he could not roof as a trader governing the state then, the incumbent as a professor can roof them as part of the government.

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) recalls that Soludo’s letter was released on Monday afternoon, which literally set the internet on fire.

    In the 4008-word piece, Soludo dismissed Obi, one of his predecessors as a joker in the 2023 race, saying he would only deplete the votes of former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and widen the chances of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

    Tracing the multiple defections of Obi from the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) to PDP and Labour Party, which he described as a “transit camp” for aspirants who lost primaries, the governor said Obi himself knows that he cannot win.

    Soludo also took a swipe at Obi’s supporters whom he referred to as social media mob.

    Reacting, while speaking to the alumni association of the Lagos Business School at an event on Tuesday, Obi said Soludo remains his brother.

    The LBS Alumni Day themed, ‘The Leadership Imperative’ is one of the engagement platforms hosting political office seekers to answer questions and share their vision for the country.

    “When you spread your investment, some will go up, some will come down. But overall, the company is still there. The company is still doing well. It’s still part of a global chain and everything. I needed to explain it not because I’m defending comments made by my brother.”

    “My brother is a brother and remains my brother. We’re very close. I remain prayerful for him. Of other things which I didn’t succeed, God has given him the opportunity to do it and succeed.

    “For me…if there is anything pending, governance, governance you don’t finish. People are still in government in America. So, you stop where you stop. Other people will continue from there. I don’t look back. He is the governor of my state. He is my senior brother. He is even more intelligent than I am.

    “He is a professor and I am a trader. He knows more. So, he will be able to do this better than I’m doing it. I have done my little work as a trader. Now the professor is there, he will do his own thing as a professor. The schools that I didn’t roof, you roof them. That’s our government goes,” the LP presidential candidate said.

  • Soludo urges Anambrarians to observe Monday as day of prayers

    Soludo urges Anambrarians to observe Monday as day of prayers

    In a bid to counter the “sit-at-home” on Mondays in Anambra State, since the arrest and commencement of trial of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) leader, Nnamdi Kanu, the state governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, has urged Anambrarians to observe a one-day prayer session against the activities of the gunmen terrorising the state and the South-East region.

     

    The governor said the prayer session would hold on Monday, April 4, 2022 in churches and other religious worship centres across the state.

     

    He said the move became necessary so as to counter the “evil” effect of the Monday sit-at-home order.

     

    He spoke on Saturday at a stakeholders’ peace meeting with security chiefs, traditional rulers and religious leaders, in Awka.

     

    He said, “I enjoin you to pause and join in fellowship as we seek the face of God.It is expected that the conclusion of the prayer session shall mark the end of Sit At Home in Anambra State.”

     

    IPOB has ended sit-at-home in South-East, says Anambra monarch.

     

    Meanwhile, the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra has scrapped its Mondays’ sit-at-home directive in the South-East region, saying the development is to embrace peaceful negotiations organised by the Anambra State Government.

     

    IPOB yielded to the appeal by the Anambra State government and traditional rulers to pave the way for peace since all Igbo stakeholders and religious leaders have declared their intention to find a lasting solution to insecurity and incessant sit-at-home in the region.

     

    The decision was disclosed by the Chairman, Anambra Traditional Rulers’ Council, Igwe Nnaemeka Achebe, during a one-day peace building and security meeting held in Awka on Saturday.

     

    Achebe, who is also the Obi of Onitsha, said the stakeholders had continually held meetings on the way forward on the impasse.

     

    He said after its meeting on Friday, it was agreed that the call to release the IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu, would help in dousing the tension in the state.

     

    He called on the governors of the South-East states to represent their people well and speak their minds at all times.