FG shown no compassion to flood victims – Peter Obi

Peter Obi, the presidential candidate for the Labour Party, claimed that the Federal Government has not shown compassion for the plight of Nigeria’s flood victims.

“We want a Nigeria that we will show patriotism by caring for the people in everything. Look at the flooding that has happened all over Nigeria. As far as I am concerned, the Government of Nigeria has not responded adequately, they’ve not shown compassion,” the former Anambra State governor said on Tuesday during a visit to Governor Samuel Ortom in Makurdi, the Benue State capital.

“Leadership comes with compassion, it comes with listening, it comes with understanding. Even those people in (Internally Displaced Persons) IDP (camps) how many people has the Federal Government come to visit? That is what you do, that is what shows you are committed.”

Obi added that the goal of his “deal” with some PDP governors, including Ortom, who are displeased, is to make Nigeria a better place.

Meanwhile, the former governor of Anambra State was cited by Ortom as one of the best presidential candidates for the general election of 2023. The governor asserted that Obi, the Labour Party’s (LP) nominee for president, has the ability to free Nigeria from its economic and security problems.

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“If Nigeria needs to make a choice, you are one of the finest candidates that we have in this country. In terms of education, in terms of character, in terms of performance, in terms of reaching out, in terms of being a pan-Nigerian, in terms of industrialization, and passion to ensure that our country is liberated from where we are; out of insecurity to security, and out of economic woes to economic vibrancy and out of lack to adequate social life, you have the capacity to make things work,” Ortom stated.

Recall that Peter Obi had also called on his counterparts in other parties to suspend their campaigns and join him to help victims of floods across states of the federation.

Floods have hit parts of Nigeria in the last two months with the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) saying that about 2.5 million persons were affected and over 603 persons killed by the flooding caused by torrential rainfall of late.

Houses and farmlands have been submerged in Lagos, Yobe, Borno, Taraba, Adamawa, Edo, Delta, Kogi, Niger, Plateau, Benue, Ebonyi, Anambra, Bauchi, Gombe, Kano, Jigawa, Zamfara, Kebbi, Sokoto, Imo, Abia States, and the Federal Capital Territory.

The 2022 floods have attracted international “solidarity”. In a letter to President Muhammadu Buhari, King Charles III sympathized with Nigeria over the “devastating” incidents.