The Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi has
dismissed the recent comments by his opponent in the forthcoming presidential
election, Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC, mocking him as ‘Mr
Stingy.’
Obi, a former governor of Anambra State, made the remark on
Sunday during The Peoples Townhall, organised by Channels Television and its
partners.
Recall that Tinubu had in a campaign speech over the last
week alleged that Obi watched his people suffer and saved the State’s funds
rather than save the people.
However, Obi dismissed the remarks, saying that no one could
fault him for refusing to steal public funds.
“I’ve challenged everyone to say, ‘Go and see whether there
is anywhere a kobo of Anambra State money is missing.’ Saving has now become an
issue. When people have stolen all the money and impoverished the country, you
are now questioning a man who left the money without anybody telling me to
leave it and go,” Obi said.
Obi added that when he became governor in 2006, the global
benchmark for measuring development was the Millennium Development Goals, MDGs,
which he started implementing in 2008, but that his State was number one in
education, health, and had the best road network when it had stopped in 2015.
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