₦airaland Forum

In tradition with my policy of celebrating with the distressed in our society, during seasons of celebration, yesterday being Christmas, I visited the Nigerian Correctional Centre in Onitsha, where I joined the Archbishop of Onitsha and Grand Patron of the Nigerian Correctional Centres, to spend time and interact with our brothers and sisters undergoing rehabilitation in the center.

I was impressed, on my visit today, to see that, through the intervention of Archbishop Okeke, their Skill Acquisition Centre is fully operational, and the inmates are already being equipped with different productive skills. Aside from the Skill Acquisition Centre, I was happy to learn that the inmates can now take their National Business and Technical Examinations Board examinations at the Centre. Moreover, the National Open University of Nigeria now has its study center in the correctional facility.

As one who believes deeply in human development through education as a critical tool for national development, I find the establishment of these educational facilities very commendable. I sincerely appreciate Archbishop Valerian Okeke for his constant intervention and immeasurable contributions to the correctional facility, and society at large.

I urge the government to replicate such positive developments across the other correctional centers in the country. This will greatly go a long way in rehabilitating the inmates, who are mainly youths in the correctional facilities, and prepare them to live more positive lives and contribute productively to societal development.

A New Nigeria Remains POssible. -PO

yarimo:
And he refused to visit any correctional center in any northern state very unfortunate divisional minded mam claiming one nigeria

DamnnNiggarr:

Some people on here always say that Peter Obi is pretending or he's pretentious in nature due to his goodwill messages and visitations, but Brother, Aunty, this one Don pass pretending oo!

This one is organic, it's inborn. If you say it pretending and it's easy, then, go do that kind of pretending, it's good for the society.

Journalist: how do you intend to engage members of your party who are members of the house, so that they can stand different.......?

PO: Let me start with the issue of labour party members in the house, have actually discussed this issue with them, surprisingly, I can tell you ,… pic.twitter.com/svybrcY4t3

— Beyond (@chigozie0102) November 7, 2023

yarimo:
And he refused to visit any correctional center in any northern state very unfortunate divisional minded mam claiming one nigeria

Love800:
If this man later becomes president and Nigeria still fail to witness any good change under him, then Nigeria is totally and finally dead!

newsbook:
Anambra State governor, Chief Willie Obiano has re-echoed his allegation that his predecessor, Mr Peter Obi demanded the sum of N7.5billion from him for sponsoring his election in 2013.

Obiano and his predecessor, Obi have had a frosty relationship shortly after his swearing in.

Obi has however denied that he demanded for the sum of N7.5billion from Obiano, saying that his problem with him was his (Obiano’s) underperformance.

Obi said if he needed the said sum, he would have simply taken it from the N75billion he left for the Obiano administration at the end of his tenure.

But Governor Obiano while speaking on Wednesday evening at Ezechima Primary School, Onitsha where he inaugurated his reelection campaigns in Onitsha North Council Area, said the clarification became necessary because of the recent accusations against him by the former Governor.

He stated that his predecessor had demanded the sum of N7.5billion from him as funds spent in prosecuting the election on his behalf, but that he refused to pay the money because it was not true.

Obiano said he refused to pay because he strongly believed that public funds should be used for public good, and not to settle godfathers.

These, he said, was the reason they fell apart.

The governor said that another reason he refused to pay the money was because he was aware that enough money was raised for his campaign by his friends and associates, all of which were never accounted for by the former governor.

On the actual sum the former Governor claimed he left behind, Governor Obiano made it clear that he inherited liability of about N127 billion debt from him in contracts awarded and other responsibilities, which he has been religiously undertaking in the spirit of continuity.

He said Obi flagged off several roads even on the day he was leaving office and saddled him with the burden of paying for it, but he assured the people that he has his eyes on the ball and will not allow anything to distract him from fulfilling his promises.

The Chairman of the Governor’s Re-election Campaign Committee, Chief Victor Umeh said APGA as the political spirit of Ndigbo, has in the past three and half years, availed Anambra good governance at its best, reminding the people that the upcoming guber election was not about Willie Obiano but about ensuring that the state remained free from political godfatherism.

A former Central Bank Governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo in his speech said that at this time, the State needs a tested hand like Governor Obiano who has the experience and expertise to effectively steer her affairs.

https://www.google.com.ng/amp/dailypost.ng/2017/10/19/peter-obi-demanded-n7-5bn-sponsoring-election%E2%80%8E-obiano-insists/amp/

bigpicture001:
He musnt go round the country... Those ppl have their prominent people also....

See obi has guts... He continues in his visible association with the church especially the Catholic church which his family has a strong ties to... He knows it will sway some northern voters against him... But he chose to b exactly what he truly is....

bennybuhari:
“’I cannot take anything back about Obi. I said Obi said he wants to move Nigeria back from consumption to production and I said that is not true. He cannot do it because his own business survives on consumption. Is that a lie? He has been an importer and I said he deals with cash and carry economics; container economics, imports”.

“All the goods that can be produced in Nigeria, Obi imports them in his supermarkets. That is consumption economics. That kind of person cannot tell you that he is moving you from consumption to production. He will then be committing self-economic suicide and Obi will not do that to himself”.

“So, Obi is deceiving everybody and I can’t take that back because that is true.

https://independent.ng/peter-obi-deceiving-everybody-i-wont-retract-my-statement-about-him-dele-alake/