Peter Obi, the presidential candidate for the Labour Party, has stated that the nation is experiencing difficult times and that it has become challenging for parents to know where their next meal will come from.
According to the former governor of Anambra State, the current problems facing the nation are the product of years of bad leadership piling on each other.
Obi said this on Friday in Enugu, as a guest at an event titled “Shaping the Future” organized by Boys Champions, a civil society organization.
He said, “Your country is going through troubled times. It qualifies for two things that make a failed state. First, when you are no longer in control of your territory. Everybody is insecure here, including you. Nobody is safe. The only thing you hear now is bad news.
“Number two is when you are no longer in control of your economy. Your parents are having a problem. You don’t have jobs; it is difficult for you to know where the next meal will come from. Your parents no longer know what they will spend for a bag of rice or a bag of beans today. If they send someone to the market, when he comes back, whatever he comes back with, that’s the price of it for that day. We can’t plan with that. So it must change.
“Why did we arrive here? That is the cumulative effect of bad leadership over the years.”