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“I’m not fighting with Tinubu,” Peter Obi says after Vatican trip

Peter Obi, the 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party, has said, contrary to insinuations by several individuals and groups, that he is not fighting with President Bola Tinubu.

Obi’s remarks followed questions by a journalist during his visit to the Anglican Hospital Diocese of Kubwa and the Anglican Comprehensive Secondary School both in Kubwa, Abuja.

The journalist had made inquiries about Obi’s meeting with President Tinubu at the Vatican City on Sunday.

He said, “I and the president are not fighting, okay. I am not fighting anybody.”

He further restated that he had made it clear that his fight is against hunger, corruption and all the vices bedevilling the nation.

“My fight is against bad governance, against hunger, out-of-school children and people not having health services.

“This country has less than 10 per cent health insurance care; health insurance should be 100 per cent.

“These teachers teaching here should be paid by the government because it is a universal basic education, and the law says that our children should go to school for free,” he said.

He also stated that it is not the responsibility of priest or the church to manage schools and hospitals for the country.

“So what my Lord is doing is helping government, so government should help him. That was what I did in Anambra State,” Obi noted.

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