The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has aimed a dig at President-elect, Bola Tinubu, after his return to Nigeria from a rest.
Obi, who made this call in Awka on Monday, said he had no reason to take a rest after the 2023 presidential campaigns and the election that followed, arguing that those who had to rest had their reason for doing so.
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Addressing reporters after visiting the Moslem community in Awka Central Mosque to celebrate the Eid-El Fitri with them, Peter Obi said the kind of problems facing Nigeria did not warrant that her leaders should rest as there are many issues requiring consistent attention.
He said;
People who want to rest can go and rest. Me, I am not resting because I have to be visiting schools and hospitals and be interacting with people.
No serious leader will go and rest in Nigeria. We will continue to visit as many people as we can, and also support them in the best way we can.
He told the Muslim community that his visit had nothing to do with politics because the campaigns had ended.
According to him, it is not only when one is seeking political office that he should visit people, adding that no matter what people do in politics, but Nigerians must also remain one.
Peter Obi added;
I am a Christian and you are Muslims, but we are all Nigerians. Politics can also not divide us. I have never seen any road that is built and is only for Muslims to drive on, or seen any market where only Christians buy bread cheaper than Muslims. If you know such a market, please tell me, let me go and buy.
If you go to Dubai, the land on which one of the biggest churches is built was donated by the ruler of Dubai who is a Moslem. In England too, a mosque was donated by the Queen, who is the head of the Church of England.
He further cautioned against fighting across political differences.
We are one and we are created by the same God. We should therefore not allow religion or politics to divide us. Nigeria will continue to be one irrespective of political affiliation.
When I told people that I will start fighting poverty from the north, some people said that the North is not poorer than South and that since I’m from the South, I should start here. But the truth is that I know that the vast land which we would use to solve the problem of poverty in Nigeria is in the north.
