A former governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, has counselled President Muhammadu Buhari to stop taking pictures with heartless and valueless politicians switching political parties at will.
Speaking on ARISE TV, Obi said the trend where Buhari poses in photographs with political defectors is sending the wrong signal to Nigerians.
Obi may be speaking on the defection of the former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Fani-Kayode was welcomed into the APC by President Muhammadu Buhari.
Obi said: “Let me tell you what I found worrisome about the defection of today. What I found worrisome is people, weekly and daily, being led to go and take photoshoots with the president, I’m worried about it. I want to see the president taking pictures at the funeral of our falling soldiers, police, or their family.
“I want to see him taking pictures with young people who are doing innovative things in the tech industry. I want to see him taking pictures with people who are making a lot of impacts; not pictures with those of us — I’m generalising politicians — who are heartless, valueless. It is very worrisome. Those pictures are not helping our country. The perception is sending the wrong signal that you can be anything and be elevated into something. That’s why the country is collapsing.”
