Good brains are in APC, yet Nigeria is not working – Peter Obi mocks El-rufai
Mr. Peter Obi, yesterday reacted to a statement credited to the
governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai that there is no
single thinking brain left in the PDP.
He mocked the Kaduna governor; saying, "All the good brains are in the
APC (All Progressives Congress), yet he country isn't working."
Obi, who was also a former governor of Anambra State, spoke in Abuja
while appearing on ARISE News Television.
Recall that El-rufai's comments followed backlash by the PDP in which
he was called to order over his statement describing Peter Obi as a
"religious bigot."
Addressing the matter, Obi stated, "Well, all the good brains are in
APC, but the country is not working. The good brains are in APC, yet
the country is collapsing. That's all I can say.
"When APC came, this country was growing at six per cent, since they
came, look at where we are! Everything has headed south, not one item
is positive."
The vice presidential candidate stressed that in 2015, APC came to
campaign with a bundle of lies and presently, instead of the ruling
party telling Nigerians if they had been able to fulfil their
promises, they were spinning more lies.
Obi further regretted the country's debt burden and carpeted the
APC-led administration for not curbing the trend.
He explained, however, that while he was not against borrowing, there
must be a purpose for it, and that this must be explained to
Nigerians.
According to him, "We are using almost 60 per cent of our revenue to
service debts. We are borrowing more. The Nigerian financial system,
National Assembly, everybody is flying to London for a road show to
borrow more money. This is what we should be discussing, what is this
money going to be used for? Not discussing whether Peter Obi comes
from Anambra or Imo."
The vice presidential candidate also commented on the ongoing
conversation on the minimum wage and said while he wasn't speaking for
the presidential candidate or the party, he said there was need to sit
down with labour, look at the income of the nation and the various
states and determine the appropriate figure.
"Personally, I do not believe that somebody from Lagos should pay same
thing with somebody from Ebonyi State. If you go all over the globe,
there is no place where two states pay the same salary even America,"
he said.
On the search on Atiku by the security agencies, he said that the
opposition leaders were not only targeted and persecuted, but the
ruling party was turning the whole thing into childish affair.
Obi said what the PDP was concerned with now was to bring the country
back to where it used to be.
He said his principal, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, would prioritise
security, national unity, education and job creation, if elected
president of Nigeria, saying the country is broken, that another four
years of the All Progressives Congress (APC) should be beyond
contemplation of any right thinking Nigerian.
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