The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi has replied former governor of Kano State and presidential hopeful of the New Nigeria People’s Party, Senator Rabiu Kwakwanso over his comment that the North will not vote for him because he is from the Southeast region.
Mr Kwankwaso while featuring on Channels TV said that northerners despite being the worst victims of President Muhammadu Buhari’s “maladministration” still believed in Nigeria’s unity.
He declared that northerners were opposed to IPOB’s secession agitations in the Southeast where Mr Obi comes from.
Rabiu however stressed that if Mr Obi wanted votes and support from the North, he might be left with no choice but to accept the NNPP’s VP slot.
Meanwhile, Peter Obi during ARISE TV morning on Wednesday said, that Mr Kwankwaso’s remark is the reason Nigeria has over 100 million people living in poverty.
The former Anambra State governor explained that rather than vote for competent leaders, Nigerians will rather vote for incompetence due to what he described as “a primitive belief of religion and ethnicity”
He said, “The comment by my elder brother Kwankwaso is the reason why we have 100 million Nigerians living in poverty, 18 million Nigerian children out of school and about 52% of Nigerians either unemployed or under employed, because rather than vote for competent leaders, we will rather vote for incompetence due to a primitive belief of religion and ethnicity.
Tell me, today you can’t travel from abuja to kaduna by road or rail, is it because someone from the south east is in charge?. You can’t travel to Minna by road, is because someone from the Southeast is in charge? Yesterday we had an attack by bandits on the presidential convoy, in Katsina, is it because someone from the Southeast is in charge? Show me where people are prospering in the North or South? What we have consistently done in this country is to hire vehicle drivers to fly airplanes as pilots instead of hiring qualified pilots.
“We have a huge problem and if you don’t know, this country will soon default on their debt servicing, schools are shut down, insecurity is everywhere, Nigeria is in coma and when you are in coma all you want is to survive, irrespective of where the surgeon who will keep you alive comes from “
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