The vice presidential candidate
of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Peter Obi, has said he is not afraid
being probed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
Obi, while stressing that five
years since he left as governor of Anambra state, no one has come to say one
naira was missing in government under his watch, said he did not accept to be
running mate to Alhaji Atiku Abubakar to make money, but to build a better
Nigeria.
Obi said this while addressing
his kinsmen in Agulu, Anaocha local government area of Anambra State yesterday
during a lecture organised in his honour by Agulu Peoples Assembly.
“I have been five years out of
government, and no one has come to say any one naira is missing in government
under my watch. EFCC can come and probe me if they like, but I am not afraid.
“I have suffered in Nigeria
politics. During my impeachment as a governor, I came back to Agulu stayed and
later went to court, and I stayed for three years in court to recover my
mandate.
“Youths are not getting job
because someone at the helm of affairs is mismanaging opportunities. Nigerian
youths who are graduates are living in their father’s house in their productive
age, you can imagine what will happen in their old age.
“I am not here to campaign to my
people because I come from here and you know what I did in Anambra. Just give
me the opportunity and we will change Nigeria, and the country will start
working again.
“We will reduce poverty, reduce
unemployment, we only ask for the opportunity. These things will not happen
overnight, but must begin to come down gradually,” Obi said.
He said Nigeria is a place where
people crave for free money to live in luxury.
Obi however said he has trained
himself and his children to live within his earnings, and that he has chosen
not to join the people whose only craving is how to acquire luxury items.
His words, “I have two graduates
who are working, a boy and a girl, and two of them don’t drive because they
haven’t made enough money to buy a car.
“They were here for the
Christmas, and I was talking to some people about them and the person said yes
that he saw my son and he is always jumping buses and tricycles.
“Some people don’t like it that
way, they believe I am rich and my children should not be trekking, and that
they should be provided with cars, but I believe they do not have the money, so
they have to trek. Who will give them cars, is it me? My money is my own. They
should get theirs.”
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