The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has responded to former Senate President Bukola Saraki‘s earlier comment that if elected, the former Governor of Anambra State’s administration would be disastrous.
During an interview with Arise Television yesterday, Saraki stated that the LP does not have candidates to fill parliamentary seats, so things may not go well if the party wins the presidential election.
However, in a swift reaction, the Obi-Datti movement’s spokesperson, Kenneth Okonkwo, who appeared on the same platform on Tuesday morning, said the structures bragged about by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) are those of criminality, poverty, insecurity, fuel scarcity, and bad leadership.
Obi, he claimed, was coming in to demolish such structures and propel the country to new heights of productivity and exportation.
According to the Nollywood actor turned politician, what Obi needed was to be in charge rather than having members in the national assembly.
He went on to say that what matters is political will and strong institutions. Okonkwo assured the country that the Labour Party presidential candidate will provide good leadership.
He said:
The structures that the PDP and APC have are structures of criminality, the structure of corruption, structure of fuel scarcity, structure of poverty, structure of insecurity and structure of bad leadership,” he said.
I can go on and on. So if Obi is part of that structure, you wouldn’t see me being a spokesman to him. And that is why he is coming in to destroy such structures. Obi is a man already yielding to Democratically ingenue change.
When he was a member of the House of Assembly, he had no members of the House of Assembly. None. But he was able to get everything he wanted to be approved by the House of Assembly.
He did not have one member of the House of Assembly when he came in as Governor and this is what Obasanjo would describe as a track record of ability and performance.
According to Okonkwo, no national assembly can move against Obi because he has to misconduct himself first.
The LP spokesman said:
He didn’t misconduct himself in Anambra State for eight years. Not even taking the land that he is entitled to or pension that he is entitled to, how can he misconduct himself when he becomes President?…Obi is coming.
He’s going to have members in the national assembly but what we are interested in is a new Nigeria…Saraki has made no point.