Presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the last
election, Peter Obi has said some Nigerian leaders will always do the wrong
thing because they are living a falsified life.
Obi who spoke on Monday while featuring on Arise TV program,
explained that leaders who manipulated their academic records via certificate
forgery prior to their election into offices are living a falsified life.
The former Anambra governor who opined that academic
qualifications should not be criteria for leadership positions, however, said
leaders should be honest about their status.
Obi pointed out that some past and present world leaders were not highly qualified academically but were honest about their qualifications.
He said, “It is the issue of leaders making statements,
doing things that are honest and truthful. This is an issue of honour and
integrity. It is the foundation on which you build society.
“If you look at what is happening in Nigeria today, there
are so many issues of certificate, age and all sorts of falsification or the
other. It is all over within the leaders.
“There is no way people can be doing this and be able to do
the right things. Because that means that they are living a falsified life.
“There are so many great people in the world who did not go
to school. I can say that the greatest president in America is Abraham Lincoln.
He did not go to a former school because he came from an extremely poor family.
“He didn’t have to say he had a PhD here or there to
generate arguments like what we are having all over Nigeria today which is
bringing the credibility of the nation into question.
“You don’t need to have all the degrees in the world to be
great but you need to be honourable about your past”.
Some Governors, lawmakers and even the president are
currently having legal battles following the discrepancies surrounding their
academic records.
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