“May God help us as we aim to achieve a new Nigeria where we do not politicize everything” – Peter Obi speaks after his humanitarian visit to Benue State was blocked
Peter Obi, the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party withinside the 2023 wellknown election, has expressed his displeasure with the coping with of his deliberate go to to Benue State.
In a announcement shared on Monday thru X, Obi expressed sadness over the response from the Benue State Government to his scheduled courtesy name and deliberate visits to internally displaced persons (IDPs) camps and fitness establishments withinside the country .
His announcement read: “Ordinarily, I might now no longer have commented in this issue, as I even have persisted some distance worse conditions in my political existence considering that I declared for the presidency, and it maintains to get worse as I try to do matters in a civilised and prepared manner. The unfolding occasions call for that I need to begin talking out now.
“On what transpired nowadays (April 14) for the duration of my deliberate go to to Benue State, I am now no longer absolutely positive that the country Governor, my expensive more youthful brother, a Reverend Father I deeply respect, is privy to this situation. Having exhausted each feasible approach to attain him, I am pressured to apply this to be had platform to make sure my message is conveyed.
“On Thursday, the tenth of April, I had deliberate to go to Plateau and Benue State, respectively. Plateau on Sunday, the thirteenth of April 2025, and Benue on Monday, the 14th of April 2025. My journey protected paying courtesy calls to the governors in addition to journeying the IDP camps and colleges of nursing in each states to provide my guide .
“As is my practice, I reached out to the Plateau State authorities to tell them of my go to , which protected spending the day with the sufferers on the IDP camp in Bokkos, a go to I wholeheartedly embraced to increase my guide , care, and compassion to fellow Nigerians in need. And in his utmost hospitality, the Plateau State Governor graciously permitted.
In a comparable vein, I attempted time and again to touch the Benue State Governor immediately with out success. I then effectively contacted his ADC who advised me that the governor become in a completely essential assembly and might name me earlier than nighttime at the equal day.
“Unfortunately, I didn’t get that name till Sunday night while he despatched me a message mentioning he had now no longer been capable of attain his primary for the reason that day I called. I become disturbed through how an ADC might now no longer had been capable of attain his primary for three days.
“However, due to the fact my go to to the governor become only for courtesy and respect, I determined to continue with my journey to Makurdi.
“Earlier nowadays at 7am, I left Jos, and on achieving Akwanga at approximately 10am, my protection crew stopped and said they obtained a press announcement , purportedly from the Benue State Government, that regarded designed to prevent my journey . Curiously at the same time as I become nonetheless speaking with my protection crew at the issue, the Governors ADC despatched the announcement immediately to me.
“The letter refers precisely to my itinerary which I had in advance conveyed to the ADC immediately and to the safety operatives in Benue via my personal protection .
‘I am pressured to remind them, and all concerned, that the cause of this adventure is to guide suitable reasons in regions of essential development: fitness and fitness schooling , schooling and being concerned for our human beings in need, and that is what I even have carried out in my personal existence for years earlier than moving into politics or even at the same time as in politics I even have persevered to do so.
“Everyone knew then how I needed to get permission from the then President, President Goodluck Jonathan, that I had to go to Haiti for the duration of the earthquake.
“I supposed to go to a college being constructed through the bishop in Gboko, a Nursing college and an IDP camp, movements that mirror my true take care of the welfare of our fellow residents , and my non-stop display of love, care and compassion to residents who’ve been displaced.
“May God assist us as we rebuild our state and purpose to reap a brand new Nigeria in which we do now no longer politicize the whole thing however permit residents to exist, and all of us need to stay for the not unusualplace suitable for much less privileged Nigerians and people in need.
“A new Nigeria is POssible. -PO”
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