Responding to journalists’ questions at Southern Sun, Lagos yesterday, Obi regretted that rather than some political elites focusing on resolving the plight of several millions of Nigerians without livelihood, over 10 million of out-of-school children and many more of unemployed youths, they are busy engaged in emitting hate speeches and spreading concocted falsehoods in their desperation to be elected into public offices so that they will continue with impoverishing the nation and the generality of the people.
Obi said: “As a matter of fact, the mosque at Onitsha was destroyed before I became governor.
Describing the allegation that he snubbed the Sultan of Sokoto who was in the State as ridiculous, Obi asserted that irresponsibility and disrespect for elders and leaders were not in his character.
According to him, “The irony of this concoction is that I have been a friend of His Eminence, the Sultan right from my first year at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, in 1980 through his tenure as Nigeria’s Defence Attaché in Pakistan till the present. “The fact is that the visit of his Eminence, during which I was alleged to have snubbed him was purely a courtesy call after which I personally accompanied him to see the Obi of Onitsha, Obi Alfred Achebe with whom he had a meeting. I also requested His Eminence to visit the Hausa community in the state during which I offered to rebuild and subsequently gave them the funds for that purpose.”
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THERE IS NO SMOKE WITHOUT FIRE, THE ONITSHA MOSQUE WAS ALREADY BURNT DOWN BEFORE YOU CAME IN, YOU KNOW HIS EMINENCE WHEN YOU WERE IN UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA,BLA...BLA...BLA. YOU ARE A LIER, ALL THE PEOPLE YOU MALTREATED ARE STILL ALIVE, THEY ARE WAITING FOR YOUR CAMPAINGN IN THE NORTH THEN WE WILL SEE WETHER YOU WILL CARRY ID CARD TOO
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