Good brains are in APC, yet Nigeria is not working – Peter Obi mocks El-rufai

The Vice Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP), Mr. Peter Obi, yesterday reacted to a statement credited to
the governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai that there is
no single thinking brain left in the PDP.

He mocked the Kaduna governor; saying, “All the good brains are
in the APC (All Progressives Congress), yet he country isn’t
working.”

Obi, who was also a former governor of Anambra State, spoke in
Abuja while appearing on ARISE News Television.

Recall that El-rufai’s comments followed backlash by the PDP in
which he was called to order over his statement describing Peter
Obi as a “religious bigot.”

Addressing the matter, Obi stated, “Well, all the good brains
are in APC, but the country is not working. The good brains are in
APC, yet the country is collapsing. That’s all I can say.

“When APC came, this country was growing at six per cent, since
they came, look at where we are! Everything has headed south, not
one item is positive.”

The vice presidential candidate stressed that in 2015, APC came
to campaign with a bundle of lies and presently, instead of the
ruling party telling Nigerians if they had been able to fulfil
their promises, they were spinning more lies.

Obi further regretted the country’s debt burden and carpeted the
APC-led administration for not curbing the trend.

He explained, however, that while he was not against borrowing,
there must be a purpose for it, and that this must be explained to
Nigerians.

According to him, “We are using almost 60 per cent of our
revenue to service debts. We are borrowing more. The Nigerian
financial system, National Assembly, everybody is flying to London
for a road show to borrow more money. This is what we should be
discussing, what is this money going to be used for? Not discussing
whether Peter Obi comes from Anambra or Imo.”

The vice presidential candidate also commented on the ongoing
conversation on the minimum wage and said while he wasn’t speaking
for the presidential candidate or the party, he said there was need
to sit down with labour, look at the income of the nation and the
various states and determine the appropriate figure.

“Personally, I do not believe that somebody from Lagos should
pay same thing with somebody from Ebonyi State. If you go all over
the globe, there is no place where two states pay the same salary
even America,” he said.

On the search on Atiku by the security agencies, he said that
the opposition leaders were not only targeted and persecuted, but
the ruling party was turning the whole thing into childish
affair.

Obi said what the PDP was concerned with now was to bring the
country back to where it used to be.

He said his principal, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, would prioritise
security, national unity, education and job creation, if elected
president of Nigeria, saying the country is broken, that another
four years of the All Progressives Congress (APC) should be beyond
contemplation of any right thinking Nigerian.