Thursday, April 10, 2025 - The Labour Party presidential candidate in 2023, Peter Obi, has said that no amount of defence from those in power can overshadow the fact that Nigeria, according to him, is collapsing.
The former Governor of Anambra State, who was addressing
members of the Labour Party’s National Executive Council, NEC, during an
emergency meeting in Abuja on Wednesday, charged his party men not to allow
fears hold them off from speaking the truth to power.
Obi narrated incidents where people who previously had
enough to feed and even share with others now resort to public begging as the
only option for survival.
He said, “Do not fear anybody. Those who feared yesterday
had not done it better. We must speak when things are wrong.
“Nigeria is collapsing. Anybody can say anything. The
numbers are clear. The indices are clear, very clear, more and more people are
poorer.
“If you want, go to your village, the people who are begging
now are people who use to feed. But are no longer having and now begging.
“Even in this hotel, every time I enter this hotel now, I
see people who are telling me, ‘Oga, I just came to Abuja and I can’t go back’.
“So that shows you how bad it is. This is the same hotel
where I used to come and people will be asking me, ‘will you drink? Come and
eat, come and do this.’Nobody’s offering me anything again.
“That shows how bad it is. When you now see somebody on
Agbada telling you ‘I can’t go back’.
“So let us know that things are difficult, things are bad.
It is time for all of us to come together. I thank those of you who are doing
very well and let us stand together and ensure that the right things.”
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