Peter Obi promises to halt campaign if…
Mr. Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s (LP) presidential flag bearer, has promised to halt his campaigning for the 2023 general elections if it is disclosed that he received a gift of land while serving as governor of Anambra State.
This was said on Friday by the 61-year-old former governor at the Oba Ewuare II palace in Edo State.
When the presidential candidate for the LP stormed Edo for campaigning ahead of the elections in February of next year, he paid a visit to the respected Benin king.
When Oba Ewuare II welcomed the politician to his palace, he used the chance to explain a viral document in which Obi rejected a land allotment from the Anambra State Government while he was a serving governor.
“Your Excellency, somebody show me a letter where land was given to you in your state and you politely returned it that you don’t need it; that you are there to serve and so on. Correct?” the first-class monarch asked.
“Very correct,” Obi responded.
“If anybody sees a piece of land allotted to me, my wife, any of my family members, directly or indirectly when I was governor, I will stop campaigning,” the LP presidential candidate noted.
Obi’s two-term intermittent tenure as governor of Anambra between 2006 and 2014 was marred with legal battles up to the Supreme Court.
Obi was the running mate to Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar in the 2019 general elections.
He, however, dumped the party early 2022 and joined the LP where he clinched the party’s 2023 presidential ticket.
The ex-governor is in the 2023 race for Aso Rock alongside Atiku, Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, amongst others.
