Bola Tinubu, the standard bearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC), attacked Peter Obi, his rival in the Labour Party (LP), on Saturday when campaigning at Akure, the capital of Ondo State, Tinubu presented his Renewed Hope agenda to the audience of supporters and criticised Obi’s strategy for utilising the state’s resources to empower the populace.
The APC candidate claimed that progressive and democratic administration is the only way to realise his vision for the nation, and Obi is unable to do this.
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“He [Obi] cares little that his policies and actions have a chance to show how progressive he could be when he was the governor of Anambra State. All he could do was boast that he saved money – I don’t know how much.
“But I tell you, it is a wicked parent like Obi, given the opportunity to feed his children, invest in tomorrow on their behalf and hold money in his hands while the children starve and go to bed hungry. That is Obi wickedness,” he said.
He claimed that only a “heartless governor” would continue to hold onto funds despite starving schoolchildren, poorly maintained roads, and clinics. According to the former governor of Lagos, neither city dwellers nor farmers benefit at this time.
“In the end, he refused to save the people because he preferred to save the money and he claimed to be a party labour (sic). Is that labour? You will have to be labouring under a terrible delusion if you think he will do a better job for this nation than he did for Anambra State.
“What is there to be proud of? After Obi left, Obi has nothing to be proud of. Instead, Obi moved, left Anambra crying. He moved to Lagos. Obi… Obi…. Import and export. Warehouse economist. Obi, why did you do that?
“You now ran away to Labour. What kind of Labour? It means you have no understanding of what it means. When they talk of dignity of labour, instead [of him] to save the people, instead he saved the money. I am indeed very sorry,” he said.
