…says my security plan will be immediate and decisive
…I deliberately refused to tell Atiku I was leaving PDP
The Presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi has said his political journey so far in Nigeria’s political landscape has a touch of miracles.
TheNewsGuru.com, (TNG) reports Obi made this disclosure in an interview with a national television program on Monday.
Obi who went memory lane saying despite the many land mines planted on his political sojourn one way or the other he had managed to survive miraculously.
When he was asked to react to so many things said about him by a fellow Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, Obi said”well, my political journey has been a miracle.
“So many things has happened in my life that people never thought would be possible. In 2003, I contested for the Anambra Governorship election under a party that was just one year old, people said it will take a miracle for me to win the election that year, I won.
“Six months later, I was impeached. I challenged the impeachment in court, people said it will be impossible for me to come back to office, that no governor has ever come back to office after impeachment, they said it will take a miracle for me to win the case in court, I won the case.
“I came back to office and in 2007, an election was conducted and Andy Uba declared the winner. I went to court again to seek for the interpretation of our laws, I told the court that the tenure of a Governor is Four years and I should be allowed to finish my tenure, people said it will take miracle for me to win that case, I won.
“So my Political journey has been like a miracle and I’m waiting for the bigger miracle to happen in 2023. That’s my response to Atiku’s statement.
On the claim by Atiku that 90% of Northerners are not internet compliant, again, Obi said” Well, that’s the problem I’m coming to solve as the Nigerian President. I have said it before that the north will be our new oil, I will convert that population to wealth through Production.
“I will invest in education so that those who don’t know how to operate the internet in the north, will learn how it is done. The north is our new oil.
On why he refused to inform Atiku of his defection from PDP, he responded saying: ” A time will come in a man’s life, where he will decide to take a very strong decision about his life and his people, without informing those who are likely to tell him not to take such decision. I have so many important people in my life that I didn’t tell that i was going to leave PDP, I didn’t even tell my family at that time. I took that decision because it is the best thing to do and I didn’t want anybody to distract me.
“Remember when I left, I told Nigerians that I will rather lose doing the right thing, than win doing the wrong thing.
On security, he said “it will be immediate and decisive, I will pull people out of poverty, it has been proven that the more you pull people out of poverty, the more you reduce crime. I will invest in education and military manpower. All options will be on the table.