`Peter Obi’, the Labour Party’s presidential candidate, has stated that his determination to win the presidency of Nigeria will not be shaken by the court’s decision to condemn Doyin Okupe, the director general of the party’s Presidential Campaign Council, for money laundering violations.
On Monday, December 20, 2022, the presidential candidate made this statement while speaking with reporters at the Akwa Ibom State Council Secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) in Uyo.
The conviction of Okupe didn’t deter `Peter Obi’, who declared that he would carry on with his campaign while letting the legal system’s due process run its course.
The Labour Party (LP) Presidential candidate said, “I am hearing about it (the conviction) just like you. I am still studying what is coming out of the Court and everything. I believe in the rule of law. It is not going to demoralize me.
“Today, when I arrived Akwa Ibom somebody asked me why I haven’t been using my aircraft because it has been grounded and all that, and I said to him that nothing demoralizes me.
“In my life, I have never stayed where they dropped me, otherwise, I would have been where they dropped me before. This election, if they like, let them do anything about people who are around me. I will get there.’’
On the impression that he does not have the political structure to win the presidential election, Peter Obi said he was determined to dismantle the existing political structure in the country which encouraged corruption and spread poverty among Nigerians.
He said, “The structure they have today is the structure we want to destroy. It is the structure of criminality. It is a structure that produced 133 million people living in poverty.
“It is the structure that produced 20 million out-of-school children. It is the structure that has made Nigeria surpass India in infant mortality. It is the structure that will destroy Nigeria and we want to destroy that structure.’’
The LP presidential candidate added that his priority would be how to secure a United Nigeria and pull people out of poverty.
He said, “My problem is how to create a future and make Nigeria a productive and not a consuming nation.”
