Nigeria: Distribution of Campaign Vehicles, Misplacement of Priorities
Peter Obi calls the allocation of luxury vehicles for 2027 campaigns a misuse of public funds amid widespread poverty and insecurity affecting millions, including youth unemployment.
- On Thursday, Peter Obi, Labour Party 2023 presidential candidate and former Anambra State governor, criticised the government for allocating public resources to luxury Hilux trucks and Hummer buses for 2027 mobilisation as insensitive.
- Facing hunger and insecurity, Obi argued leadership should prioritise feeding the hungry, ensuring healthcare, restoring jobs, and securing communities as children drop out of school and mothers die during childbirth in Nigeria.
- Obi criticised leaders for flaunting wealth by driving luxury vehicles while ordinary Nigerians struggle, stressing campaigning should not be about staging political theatrics to win votes.
- Obi urged leadership based on empathy and prudence, saying citizens deserve leadership grounded in empathy, prudence and accountability and a New Nigeria is necessary despite current challenges.
- Obi warned the move undermines public trust by reflecting profound insensitivity and an `abuse of public trust`, saying Nigeria cannot continue wasteful, misplaced priorities.
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Nigeria: Distribution of Campaign Vehicles, Misplacement of Priorities
Abuja -The 2023 Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Mr. Peter Obi, has described the distribution of luxury vehicles, especially by public office holders ahead of the 2027 campaign as insensitive and an abuse of public trust.
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Peter Obi Slams Politicians Distributing Campaign Vehicles As Insecurity, Poverty Decimate Citizens
…Says It’s Profound Insensitivity and Abuse of Trust. Peter Obi, former presidential candidate of the Labour Party in 2023 presidential election, has slammed political office holders and government already purchasing and distributing luxury vehicles for 2027 campaigns while neglecting the masses being traumatized and decimated by insecurity and poverty in the country. Obi, lamented […]
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