The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi has called on Nigerians to take back the country, claiming the nation’s political space has been taken over by those he described as “lunatics”.
Obi believes many of those in the political space do not have business being there.
“We can’t allow this gangsterism to continue, Nigerians should take back their country. Seventy per cent of those who are in politics today should not have any reason to be near there. I have said it, politics in Nigeria is a case where lunatics took over the asylum,” the former governor of Anambra State said on Sunday’s ‘Men of Valour’ conference organised by the Revival House of Glory International Church (RHOGIC), Abuja.
“You must replace that asylum with people who are competent. This is the only country where the worst is leading; the best should lead. I have served there; I was a trader and gradually entered into politics.”
According to him, “How do you think about one person taking N80 billion? It is not greed; it is sickness. When you take N1 billion, that is greed, but when you take N80 billion, that is sickness. Mad people have taken over our politics,” he said in the programme tagged ‘Navigating the Corridors of Power, the Church, and the Politics’.
“If we get young people with the competence and capacity to be there, things will change.”
