Peter Obi, the 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party has reacted to the recent remark by the government of the United States of America concerning the lifestyle lived by Nigerian leaders, especially governors.
In a post made on X on Wednesday, July 30, Obi said leadership failure is the crux of Nigeria’s problems.
In the post titled, “Leadership Failure: Nigeria’s Greatest Burden”, the former governor of Anambra said that until the leadership issues in Nigeria are tackled head-on, the country cannot move towards the right direction.
He said, “The cumulative effect of poor leadership remains our greatest obstacle to development. This calls for urgent disruption of the current retrogressive system and the enthronement of leaders with competence, character, capacity, and compassion.
“Our declining governance has drawn global attention, as shown in the recent statement by the U.S. Diplomatic Mission in Nigeria, echoed in The Africa Report (x.com/usinnigeria/st…) – a clear confirmation of what many of us have long said,” Obi stated.
He further warned that leaders cannot continue to ask the people to fast and tolerate hard times when they live in plenty.
His words, “Once again, let me be clear: you cannot ask the people to keep fasting while you feast every day. As Chinua Achebe rightly said, “The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership.”
“I speak out to help build a new Nigeria, free of criminality and corruption. But instead of addressing the message, those who have hijacked our country deploy media thugs to insult and distract. Now that the American government has made similar observations, perhaps they too will become targets,” Obi said.
He called on all well-meaning Nigerians to work towards ensuring that the system of criminality is dismantled.
“We have voted based on tribe and religion for too long – it is time to vote for competence. Let us move from waste, looting, and reckless borrowing to production. Let us build a Nigeria that works,” he stated.
Peter obi has never saw anything positive in his life in this country rather than negative comment coming from those who enslaved this country with their demonic and anti economy policy to stall the growth of Nigerian and particularly Africa, Peter obi rejoice in those comments to polish and shaping his dead chase political ambition even if those comments is false is sweeten his to paint the government in bad light to have sympathy vote in 2027… That man call obituary is fraud and joker
Please that peter obi was not like that because when he was in tenure as governor, he lead people with good ambition and character