former Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi


Mudiaga Affe, Calabar

A former governor of Anambra State, Mr Peter Obi, has identified poverty and hunger as main causes of agitations by ethnic groups in Nigeria.

Obi said this in Calabar during the 7th lecture organised by the Bridge Leadership Foundation, a non-profit organisation founded by a former governor of Cross River State, Senator Liyel Imoke.



The foundation was established in 2011 by Imoke to inculcate entrepreneurial skills in young citizens.

The theme for the 2017 edition was ‘Made in Nigeria: Local production, global market.’

Obi, who spoke on the topic, ‘Leadership and Integrity,’ said that some of the agitations across the country had gone beyond control because Nigeria lacked visionary leaders.

He cited Boko Haram in the North-East, militancy in the Niger-Delta, the Independent People of Biafra in the South-East and farmers/herdsmen clash as some of the challenges facing the country today.

Obi said, “Nigeria has the resources and potentials of becoming the greatest country in the world; but, the country lacks visionary leaders.

“Today, we have different forms of agitations in Nigeria because the people are poor and hungry. The leaders have lost touch with the led.”

He commended Imoke for sustaining the foundation for seven years, adding that capacity building for youths was one of the ways of curbing youth unemployment in the country.

Earlier, Imoke said the objective of the foundation was to groom and encourage youths to take leadership role and have the basic knowledge of becoming entrepreneurs.

“The foundation provides a valuable platform for young people to be inspired by the success stories of youths in Africa, particularly in Nigeria, who are scaling the huddles and challenges of growing up.” he said.



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The driving force for beerfraud=
Hunger+Poverty

Peter Obi the man who kickstarted the massacre of the wawa and abakaliki criminals using Massob and Ipod as cover to perpetuate their nefarious activities in anambra state. You are a real anambra blood.

Peter obi

I love your courage calling a spade a spade

By inference, poverty and hunger is very rife in igboland

sarrki:
Peter obi

I love your courage calling a spade a spade

But you supported and still supporting calamity called buhari. How else one can define visionless leader if not Buhri

Anambra failure talking about visionary leadership. A man without his own mind. A wheel-barrow - no use unless pushed. And he is their best candidate from bearfraud !

On the other hand, Igbos are being driven by hunger and poverty and not for a statehood. Coming from a horse's mouth.

nonsobaba:
Peter Obi the man who kickstarted the massacre of the wawa and abakaliki criminals using Massob and Ipod as cover to perpetuate their nefarious activities in anambra state. You are a real anambra blood.

Onye anambra ndi ogwu ego

system21:

But you supported and still supporting calamity called buhari. How else one can define visionless leader if not Buhri

There is a need to clean the system

Make sure you use the upgrade version

Haha, Peter Obi, how many people you don feed?

The IPOB members that were going on EVANGELISM with Lexus 350 and other flashy cars, do they look hungry to you?

Shift one side abeg.

Agumbankembu:
Haha, Peter Obi, how many people you don feed?

The IPOB members that were going on EVANGELISM with Lexus 350 and other flashy cars, do they look hungry to you?

Shift one side abeg.

Evans the developer his going about with assorted cars also

Obi was right, It's only the less privileged that agitate for Biafráud.

I don't understand why some idiots are telling me to pray for @MBuhari .. God will punish you all if u tell me that rubbish again..


Zoo must fall

sarrki:


Evans the developer his going about with assorted cars also

Earthworm back off, I will just spray salt on you and allow you sort yourself out.

No try quote me again.

IHEJIRIKAisBOKO:
By inference, poverty and hunger is very rife in igboland

I guess you haven't diabolically forgotten how your afonjas rat poison taker stole all their money and gave them 20 naira after the war...yes, Igbo's want out of Nigerian, because you evil people have marginalised and stole our wealth.... Do you have problem with that? Evil demons

I won't say anything

evilyoruba:

I guess you haven't diabolically forgotten how your afonjas rat poison taker stole all their money and gave them 20 naira after the war...yes, Igbo's want out of Nigerian, because you evil people have marginalised and stole our wealth.... Do you have problem with that? Evil demons

Osu, stop splashing smelly saliva. Your former governor has said hunger and poverty is ravaging the entire igbo race. Deal with that.

Meanwhile here is one of your shameless igbo elders who prefer to die in the North than go back to the hunger and poverty plagued igboland

madridguy:
I won't say anything

Instead of bringing up suggestions to help everyone in the country the ZOOTHS are busy throwing tantrums and insults, one of the zooths will not say two words with out mentioning Wawa. I am from Anambra my self (both father and mother). But I had a friend who we fondly called prince wawa! May he rest in peace, he died of pneumonia.

Nice thread that would have been a nice ground for intellectual discourse has been turned to a battle ground for tribal war. Even the OP himself is involved in the mudslinging and dckk measuring. This is the unfortunate ground nairaland has become.

I won't be surprised one mod will do them the final honor of taking it to the frontpage for the battle to have a bigger audience.

Kids and under-developed adults.

In the East, the Federal Government deliberately ensure that the following do not exist so that the East will be economically destroyed


1) No international seaport despite having boundary with the Atlantic ocean

2) Abandoned international airport

3) No functional national railway system

4) Eastern States being forbidden from exploiting their resources and establishing infrastructures for international purposes.

5) etc



These are some of the causes of the agitation to establish the Biafra republic



Poverty and Hunger aren't the root cause

Even though he is just another useless politician he told the truth! There are 2 noisy tribalists on this nairaland! The yoruba one is always forming cyber jaguda online while the igbo one has almost 20 accounts! They are both very daft and only communicate by posting afonja and osu slave comments or in their native tongues!

They day I saw both their pictures and those of their families...i almost cried for them! Very jobless suffer men stuck in their respective villages! They had to report to the mods to hide their embarrassment but since then whenever either of them sees my handle na take off sure pass! As per I sabi their secret!

Lalasticlala mynd44 fp abeg

Olisa Agbakoba is also hungry abi ?

Rubbish !!

ISDKING:
Olisa Agbakoba is also hungry abi ?

Rubbish !!

He's not an ipob youth

But he's a traitor and enemy of the state

YourImaginaryBF:
The driving force for beerfraud=
Hunger+Poverty

IHEJIRIKAisBOKO:
By inference, poverty and hunger is very rife in igboland

GameGod:
Obi was right, It's only the less privileged that agitate for Biafráud.

Hehe. While the skull miners and baddo terrorists in Osobo are prompted by too much money, overfeeding.

Make I laugh abeg

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nonsobaba:
Peter Obi the man who kickstarted the massacre of the wawa and abakaliki criminals using Massob and Ipod as cover to perpetuate their nefarious activities in anambra state. You are a real anambra blood.

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Obi should also help us get rid of Osobo parboiled miscreants and their Obomoso counterparts who are wrecking the whole Southwest towards extinction with their criminal skull mining and human spare parts business.

Kudirat, the agbo seller that hawks her wares at my favourite mechanic workshop in my hometown has refused to go back to her village in Osobo since skull miners there began wholesaling 30 skulls for 400 naira over there around last year Sallah.

She says Anambra State is now her permanent home. This is not a funny matter.

Warship:
1) No international seaport despite having boundary with the Atlantic ocean

Which boundary do you share with the Atlantic Ocean? Dont tell me you are ridiculously refering to the niger river as an Ocean.

Wake up from your delusion, the south east is landlocked !

PETER OBI U ARE RIGHT
AND THATS WHY WE WANT TO PUT AN END TO THE HUNGER
BY GETTING OUR OWN COUNTRY AND ENDING THE LOOTING BY YOUR GANG

EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWU

Peter Afonja Mohammed

And who do we blame "poverty, hunger" on?