Obi suspends campaign, asks Tinubu, Atiku, others to do the same to show compassion
By Jeph Ajobaju, Chief Copy Editor
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“If we can buy our forms for millions of naira, we should have some little thing to go, now that people are suffering, and at least show sympathy with them and then we can continue.”
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Peter Obi has suspended his presidential campaign to commiserate with three million flood victims across the country who have lost loved ones, homes, properties, and livelihoods in the unprecedented burst of waters gushed out by climate change.
Obi had planned to formally launch his run on 25 October, but that is now shelved, and he has urged Bola Tinubu, Atiku Abubakar, and others also to suspend their campaigns to sympathise with flood victims, who are mostly the poor and the needy.
Obi announced the purse when he visited Benue Governor Samuel Ortom in Makurdi.
“As you can see today, flood is ravaging the entire country. And people are dying. People are being displaced,” he said.
“I personally stopped and told my people no more campaign until we are able to visit some of the sites, at least sympathise with those going through problems.
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Visiting flood victims in Benue
“I came to take permission and ask him [Ortom] that I want to visit some of the sites in Benue as I am going to do in one or two other states.
“I am also calling other presidential candidates to stop campaigning and see what we can do, Obi added, via reporting by Vanguard.
“If we can buy our forms for millions of naira, we should have some little thing to go, now that people are suffering, and at least show sympathy with them and then we can continue.”
Obi denied allegation by Kaduna Governor Nasir el-Rufai that he (Obi) detained him in 2013 when he was Anambra Governor.
“I don’t have the power to detain anybody. Ask all the security agencies if I had for one day asked them to detain anybody,” he explained.
