The Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has described the country as an Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp.
Obi said as long as there were Nigerians, who are forced to leave their homes to live in Internally Displaced Persons, IDP, camps, Nigeria remains an IDP camp.
The LP candidate said this while answering questions from journalists after the unveiling of the new Director General of the Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Council, Prof. Akin Osuntokun, in Abuja on Tuesday.
Osuntokun, a former Political Adviser to President Olusegun Obasanjo, was appointed the new DG of the Obi-Datti campaign organisation, following the resignation of Dr Doyin Okupe who has been embroiled in a money laundering case.
Speaking at the event Obi said, “We are trying to build a better Nigeria. Over this period, I have been travelling, I have been in various states visiting people in difficult positions, and living in IDP camps.
“If Nigerians are made to leave their homes and live in IDP camps, then Nigeria as a country is an IDP camp because these are Nigerians that should be in their homes.
“The purpose of government is to care for its citizens and the first line of care is the less privileged, government takes care of the less privileged people.
“My commitment is to ensure that every Nigerian sleeps and wakes up feeling proud to be a Nigerian and not live in an IDP camp.”
Speaking further, he said: “Nigerians want opportunities to work. Nigerian youths are energetic, they are productive and can compete with youths globally but as long as Nigerians are suffering, every Nigerian is suffering.
‘You can’t be a rich man in a poor environment. It is not de-marketing the country. As long as there is insecurity in the North East and South East, there is insecurity in Nigeria.
“The highest number of unemployed people and out-of-school children are in the north. So, Nigeria has the highest number of out-of-school children and unemployed. It doesn’t matter where they reside in the country the job of the government is to provide. I would never de-market Nigeria.
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