NOT ABOUT MR. PETER OBI

A few days ago, I met a highly-placed Anambra State-based medical doctor. After introduction, he said: “Is it the Val Obienyem that always defend Mr. Peter Obi?”

With mouth bursting with pride I replied: “Yes I am. I am infinitely proud of that because I defend a man who is good and for whom anybody can shout about his goodness from the roof tops.”

Even now he has evidently moved beyond Anambra State, everybody acknowledges his contributions to national development in the form of rarefied advice he offers now and then, If you are observant, you would have noticed that governments at all tiers listen to him and have, unannounced, made his numerous pieces of advice the credo of their economic blueprint.

Two days after the encounter, I saw this post from Sen. Ben Bruce.

“I just received the results of the independent poll that was conducted to assess who Nigerians would like to become President in 2023. Glad to see my good friend, Peter Obi won the poll.
You can assess the live and final results here:

https://www.mentimeter.com/s/f4f5ee783646c2294558e57258c22344/4c649fefc438?fbclid=IwAR13DsSfAu8odDSdUR4UXdemjdNb_FYYMGet8yx0fvYEB-ql_5CPq-Ie4Do “

As far as I am concerned, it is not about contesting to become President of Nigeria, but about acknowledging a man who used the instrument of government to work for the people. The only man who, after serving as Governor, did not borrow one kobo nor owed salaries/ contractors, but left the surplus of over 75 Billion Naira for the State.

Do you remember what the former MD of Diamond Bank, Dr. Alex Otti said about the money he saved? Shall we sample him?

“He had put on record the fact that he left a whopping N75 billion for the future generation of the State. Like yours truly had done in the past, one can attest to the fact that some $155million was invested in the tier two capital of three Nigerian banks with maturities of about 5 years at interest rates of up to 9% per annum to the credit of the State. As at the time the investments were made, the Naira equivalent of the funds was about N25b. If those funds were rolled over at maturity in 2019, they would be worth about N62b today. If interest is assumed to remain at 9% for the past 6 years, an additional N33.5b would have accrued to bring the present value of the investments to over N95b. This is one of the advantages of prudence and financial literacy”.

Even now he has moved beyond Anambra State,

Kindly remember that the analysis excluded the billions saved in Naira