Uyo — Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s (LP) presidential candidate and former governor of Anambra State, has stated that the persecution of members of his campaign staff won’t deter him from running for president of Nigeria.
The comment was made by Obi yesterday while he was answering questions from reporters at the Akwa Ibom State Council Secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ.
He claimed that despite Mr. Doyin Okupe’s Director-conviction General’s for alleged money laundering, he is unfazed.
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In Obi’s words, “I am hearing about it(the conviction) just like you. I am still studying what is coming out of the courts and everything. I believe in the rule of law. It is not going to demoralize me.
“Today, when I arrived Akwa Ibom somebody asked me why I haven’t been using my aircraft because it has been grounded and all that and I said to him that nothing demoralizes me.”
On the impression that he does not have political structure to win the presidential election, he responded that he was determined to dismantle the existing political structure in the country which has caused wide-spreads poverty among Nigerians.
“The structure they have today is the structure we want to destroy. It is the structure of criminality. It is structure that produced 133million people living in poverty, it is the structure that produced 20 million out-of- school children.
“It is the structure that has made Nigeria surpass India in infant mortality. It is the structure that will destroy Nigeria and we want to destroy that structure,” he said.
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