The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has said that politicians who were responsible for the nation’s woes are opposing his ambition to rule the country in 2023.
Obi said that politicians with purported structures who have foisted about 133 million people on the country with several millions of unemployed youths are the one opposing his bid for the Presidency.
The LP Candidate dismissed the claims in some quarters that he is not being supported by the political class in the South East.
He said that it would be dangerous for everybody to be his supporter without opposing tendencies in a democracy.
Obi made the comment while speaking with journalists after signing the condolence register of the late President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Prof. George Obiozor, at the National Secretariat of Ohanaeze Ndigbo in Enugu.
“What is happening is that some people have different opinions, everybody should not support me and everybody will not support me. In fact, if everybody supports me, there is danger. Some will disagree.
“Some people have a structure that has brought us to this juncture where we produce 133 million people who are poor; where our primary health care has collapsed; where we have 20 million out-of-school children; where we have almost 40 per cent unemployment, with 60 per cent youth unemployment, and where we have the highest youth job prevent in the world.
“So, they will not support me but I urge all of us to remember that we need to build a new Nigeria. No Nigerian is against my candidacy but what we have is different opinions, which is highly allowed in a democratic dispensation.”
He described the late Ohanaeze’s leader as a leader with great qualities whose death has left his people and the country with a deep sense of loss.
He said, “I feel very sad that he died this very trying time of our nation. If you know Prof Obiozor and his contributions over the years to our country, Nigeria and to the South-East, you will know that every Igbo person feels a sense of loss but we cannot question God.”