Politics
PETER Obi, presidential candidate for the Labour Party, LP, in the 2023 election is worried over the state of suffering Nigerian children who live in IDP camp when the country is not at war.
Obi stated this during an interview with the Arise Television.
He said: “I am ready for anything, and I can no longer keep quiet. Nigeria has become one of the worst places to be in the opposition. Even my friends in the ruling party no longer greet me as they used to. Their focus is on what they can gain from an unproductive Nigeria, not on how to make the country work.
“Nigerians are suffering. On January 1st, I visited an IDP camp in Abuja to celebrate the New Year with the people there. To my shock, there are over 1,500 children in that camp who are not attending school, despite their eagerness to learn. How can people live in IDP camps in their own country when there is no war?”
Realnews reports that there are more than 10 million out of school children in Nigeria.
According to him, “If fighting to make Nigeria work will cost me my life, so be it. How can the government even talk about taxation? Who are they planning to tax? Is it the over 100 million unemployed Nigerians or the companies shutting down and leaving the country every day?”
Obi has always stated that Nigeria need to focus on increasing productivity which will propel economic, create employment, and reduce poverty.
3rd January, 2025.
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