Former Anambra State governor and Labour Party presidential candidate in the 2023 election Peter Obi has accused President Bola Tinubu of witch-hunt.
Obi said Tinubu is targeting him because his staunch opposition to Tinubu’s economic policies that have brought the country down on its knees.
“It is difficult to be in opposition in this country, extremely difficult. Because everything is against you. People don’t want to see you,” Obi said.
“I see colleagues and greet them, and they don’t want to reply. Because they don’t want the government of the day to see them greeting you.
“Your businesses, everything you’re involved in, is being dismantled. What I’ve faced; what I go through; what my family go through; you won’t even believe I could still be standing and going around this country,” stated the former governor.
However, the former Anambra governor insisted that he would continue to oppose the regime of Mr Tinubu, a one-time governor of Lagos state, citing widespread corruption.
“But I’ve made up my mind that if this is the end, so be it,” Mr Obi asserted.
He called on Mr Tinubu to do more for the country and tour the states to have a firsthand feel of the pulse of millions of hapless Nigerians.
“Endeavour to travel by road to observe the condition of most highways. You can take short trips, for example, from Calabar in Cross River state to Uyo in Akwa Ibom state, a distance of less than 100 km, or from Benin in Edo state to Warri in Delta state.
“I recall taking President Olusegun Obasanjo on a trip from Awka to Onitsha on a federal highway when I was the governor of Anambra state. That journey prompted him to immediately approve the reconstruction of parts of the road by the Anambra State government, with subsequent reimbursement by the federal government. Such actions are immensely valuable.”
He reminded Mr Tinubu that “as president, you are no longer the governor of Lagos state,” urging him to spend his next holidays in different parts of the country like Adamawa, Sokoto, Jos, Akure, Yenagoa, and Abakaliki,
