Just In: Former Anambra Governor, Peter Obi loses shopping mall in Abuja

Just In: Former Anambra Governor, Peter Obi loses shopping mall in Abuja

One of the biggest department stores in Abuja, the nation’s capital, the Next Cash and Carry has been gutted by fire.

The incident is said to have started at about 10 am on Sunday. As at the time of this report, heavy plumes of black smoke could be seen billowing into the sky.

The shopping mall reportedly belongs to former Anambra governor and 2019 PDP vice presidential candidate, Peter Obi

You will recall that Peter Obi said Nigeria is a vehicle without a brain box, requires complete overhaul.

The Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the 2019 general election, warned that Nigeria can never develop without restructuring.

The guest lecturer at the 4th Adada Lecture organised by the Association of Nsukka Professors, at the Princess Alexandria Auditorium and Unity Hall of the University said that the clamour to change the Presidency without restructuring, amounts to changing the driver of a vehicle without brain box and expect it to move.

“All over the place people have been urging me to go for President in 2023, we will vote for you, but I say to them, the vehicle called Nigeria, has no brain-box but people are talking of changing the driver only”

Just In: Former Anambra Governor, Peter Obi loses shopping mall in Abuja

“Those clamouring for restructuring are saying fix the car first then look for a driver”

Obi said that those opposed to fixing the car are exploiting the owner with daily repairs that can’t serve everybody.

Those opposed to restructuring Peter Obi said are ignorant of the benefits therein and would do everything to enable the unworkable status quo to remain.

He listed the numerous gains of a restructured Nigeria to include paying the lecturers their worth and making the students study in a conducive environment.

“Professors are house helps to politicians, how can such society grow, Professor advising local Government Chairman and running after political thugs when it should be the other way round”

The former Anambra State Governor added that Nigerian students are among the best in the World given the terrible condition of study they operate.

He regretted that Nigeria politicians see thugs who cluster around and praise them as a measure of popularity instead of seeing them as wasted production hands, who should be in factories.

“All these youths who go about shouting and hailing political leaders are supposed to be factory workers, if they were in their firms producing, they won’t have time to come hailing anybody”

Obi then charged the academicians to strive to belong, instead of leaving the political space for those who should not be there in the first place.

Just In: Former Anambra Governor, Peter Obi loses shopping mall in Abuja

The former PDP Vice Presidential Candidate to Atiku Abubakar said that security is everything that’s why the constitution said its the primary function of government, ” we are here because it’s secure”

On development, obi said that the basis of its measurement is on human capital because a developed person catalyzes every other form of development.

The well-attended lecture was chaired by a former Federal Permanent Secretary, Chinyeaka Ohaa and attended by Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State, Senator Chuka Utazi of Enugu North Senatorial zone and the Vice-Chancellor of the University, Prof Charles Igwe.