The Former Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi has described the former Vice President, Alhaji Abubakar Atiku as a committed and detribalized Nigerian.
Speaking during the meeting with the Anambra State PDP stakeholders yesterday at Uche Ekwunife Event Centre, Awka Obi said he was contesting to be the President of the country, based on his antecedents, experience, understanding of the dynamics of Nigeria and his capacity to fix the problems of the country.
While answering questions from Journalist on his relationship with tge fomer Vice President Atiku, Obi said that Atiku remained his boss and that he would remain grateful for his belief in him.
Explaining his relationship with Atiku, he said he was like a trader apprentice who had completed his apprentice training and was settled. “When an ‘Oga’ settles ‘Nwa boyi’, he can set up shop near his master, sell the same wares and it is left for customers to decide whose wares to buy,” Obi said. However, he said that what was important was that both of them maintains good relationship.
Obi assured Anambra PDP stakeholders that he was all-roundly prepared to become the president of the country. He said that given the opportunity, there should be embargo on celebration in Nigeria for all hands to be on the deck for the re-building of the country, which, he concludes, needs to be moved from a sharing to a producing country.
“ Everyday we talk about sharing formula, it is about time we changed it to production formula as is obtainable in other countries”, Obi submitted.