Peter Obi reacts to conviction of campaign DG, Okupe, says I’ll move on

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Mr Peter Obi, has said that the conviction of Doyin Okupe, the Director General of his campaign organisation would not distract him from aspiring to be the country’s president.

The Informant247 learned that the DG of Obi’s campaign organization was facing trial over alleged money laundering.

Obi made this revelation while interacting with newsmen in Uyo at the Secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), in Akwa Ibom State on Monday.

The presidential candidate said he was distracted by the development and he would proceed with his presidential aspiration and give room for justice to prevail over the matter.

“I am hearing about it (the conviction) just like you. I am still studying what is coming out of the Court and everything. I believe in the rule of law. It is not going to demoralise me.

“Today, when I arrived Akwa Ibom somebody asked me why I haven’t been using my aircraft because it has been grounded and all that, and I said to him that nothing demoralises me.

“In my life, I have never stayed where they dropped me, otherwise, I would have been where they dropped me before. This election, if they like, let them do anything about people who are around me. I will get there,” Obi said.

While reacting to the claim that he does not have structure to achieve victory in the forthcoming presidential election, Obi said he was ready to dismantle the status quo which promoted corruption and poverty among the people.

“The structure they have today is the structure we want to destroy. It is the structure of criminality. It is structure that produced 133 million people living in poverty,

“It is the structure that produced 20 million out of school children. It is the structure that has made Nigeria surpass India in infant mortality. It is the structure that will destroy Nigeria and we want to destroy that structure,” he said.

He said, “my problem is how to create a future and make Nigeria a productive and not a consuming nation.”