The Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), in the 2023 election, Peter Obi, has said his involvement in the coalition of opposition parties ahead of the 2027 election isn’t about positions but about replacing bad governance with a better one.
Obi said this in response to a question by Vanguard on reports that he had agreed to a deal with former Vice President Atiku Abubakar to serve as Vice President in the 2027 polls.
It was alleged that as part of the agreement, Atiku committed to serving a single term of four years and was even prepared to sign a written agreement.
Obi who neither agreed nor denied the existence of such a pact, spoke on the sidelines of an event where he went to donate N10 million each to a school and hospital building project being undertaken by the Anglican Church, in Kubwa, Abuja, on Monday.
He said, “I’m in coalition against hunger, a coalition against poverty, a coalition against ill health, politics for me is not about positions, it is about doing the right thing.
Whatever you make of it (the report), I can tell you that, I Peter, have told you where I stand. I just came back (from Rome) this morning, I didn’t talk about politics, I’m talking about the education of these children. I’m not talking about positions.
“In this country, we are not talking about what we should be talking about. What we should be taking about is how we are going to educate our children.”
While making a N20 million donation to the Anglican Church School and Hospital building projects, Obi described investments in education and healthcare services as key to national development.
He expressed sadness that the high rate of corruption in Nigeria is robbing the nation of the required funds to build invest in critical areas of national life such as: Education, healthcare delivery and tackling hunger and poverty.
The former Amambra State Governor maintained that faith based schools providing basic education services deserve government support.
This, he said, was because the services they provide are captured in relevant laws which make basic education free and compulsory.