••• Says Only A Lunatic Will Divert N80 Billion Public Funds
The presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has said that 70 percent of Nigerian politicians are afflicted with lunacy.
Obi said that it would only take a public office holder afflicted by lunacy to divert N80 billion public funds for personal use.
Obi spoke at the Men of Valour conference with the theme: “Navigating the Corridors of Power, the Church, and the Politics organized by the Revival House of International Church Abuja on Sunday.
Obi said that a good number of the politicians are lunatics who have dominated the political space.
He stressed that those who take far more than they need are sick beyond the level of greed.
He called on Nigerians to take back their country from gangsters in Government, without which the suffering in the land will continue.
He said, “We can’t allow this gangsterism to continue, Nigerians should take back their country.
“70 percent of those who are in politics today should not have any reason to be there. I have said it, politics in Nigeria is a case where lunatics have taken over the asylum.
“This is the only country where the worst is leading. I was a trader and gradually entered into politics. When you take far more than you need you are sick.”
“How do you explain that one person took N80 billion it is not greed it is sickness. When you take B1 billion that is greed but when you take N80 billion that is sickness. Mad people have taken over our politics.
“If we get young people with the competence and capacity to be there, things will change.”
Obi who spoke about the widely speculated third force to challenge the
All Progressive Congress and Peoples Democratic Party said that Nigerians would decide who to lead the country.
He said that that when he contested for Governor of Anambra State, his political party had no structure with no State or Federal lawmaker at the time.
“It is about the people. When I contested as governor in Anambra I did so in a small party. People told me that I had no structure. People are the structure. When I was a governor in Anambra, my party had no state or federal lawmaker.
“When I left as governor no state was financially stable as Anambra. We were not owing anybody. The people will decide who will rule them. Luckily we have eights months, let people come and tell you how they have started. Come and tell us, don’t use people or glossy paper, tell us from your mouth so that we can hold you to account.” He said
Similarly, the National Secretary of the Young Peoples Party, Hon. Vidiyano Bamaiyi, described 75 percent of politicians in Nigeria as political bandits.
“Political bandits that have taken over Nigeria, most of them have no business being there. Political bandits and brigands have taken over the political space,” he added.
