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Says I am not desperate to be president of Nigeria
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From Aidoghie Paulinus, Abuja
Former Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, has said that Nigeria is at a critical juncture.
This was even as he said he was not desperate to become the president of Nigeria.
Obi, the 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party, stated this at the All Nigeria Editors Conference (ANEC) in Abuja.
“For me as a politician, my only legal suggestion and contribution is that we know where we are now; our country is at a critical juncture that nobody needs to tell you people whether things are going right or not,” Obi said.
Obi recalled his conversation earlier where he told someone that in the past weeks, Nigeria had been in a position where the President of the United States, Donald Trump, made a statement and in the critical tweet, the issue of genocide and killings were mentioned.
He further said that instead of looking at the stark reality, they were busy debating the killings in the country.
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“Are there killings? Yes. We spent time debating whether it is genocide or not. What I think we should have said together, accept the stark reality that there is killing and find how we can organise diplomatically and everything, how we can be helped,” Obi stated.
Obi also said that what was important in the tweet was the second line which said “now disgraced country.”
He added that there was the need for Nigerians to look inward whether the country is a disgraced country or not.
Obi said: “So, somebody asked me that question. He said – now disgraced country. I said, what are you talking about? Now disgraced country. What is wrong with you? Why is it that anytime people make comments, instead of looking inward, we are looking the other way round?”
He continued by saying that Nigeria is a country with the highest number of poor people living in one country, one hundred and thirty-something million.
Obi added that the two most populous countries in the world which were India and China, when put together, they are nearly three billion, saying that Nigeria had more people living in poverty than the two of them combined.
