Chairman of South-East Governors’s Forum and
Anambra State Governor, Mr. Peter Obi has
announced his retirement from active politics.
The Governor, who disclosed this on Sunday, said
he would quit active politics at the end of his
current tenure in March 2014.
He spoke at the thanksgiving service and award
ceremony to mark the end of the 2nd Session of
the 15th Synod of the Anglican Diocese of Enugu
at the St. Bartholomew’s Church, Asata, Enugu.
“A very prominent person called me today and
asked me, what is your plan concerning politics
after your current tenure, I’m telling you now what
I told him.
“For me, I have come to the end of it; I want to quit
and rest. However, I have been praying to God that
for the sake of the good people of Anambra State,
please give them somebody like Peter Obi.
“The level of greed in Nigeria is overwhelming,
where people can’t see the suffering of other
people, they are just accumulating wealth, for me,
it is time to go.
“I wonder why one person should own a house in
Ikoyi, Asokoro, Dubai and he is not using them for
anything, people accumulate what they don’t
need, it is madness, the level of greed in Nigeria is
intolerable.
“I want all of us to be praying for Nigeria, so that
God will touch the heart of our leaders to use public
money for the people. In Anambra State we have
never borrowed money despite all the works we are
doing”.
The Governor, who was quite emotional lamented
the level of financial waste in government, stressing
“the cost of running a governor’s office in Nigeria is
too much.
“When I came in as Governor, I discovered that the
state had 70 workers in Abuja office, apart from
their salary we spend close to 15 million
maintaining that office. They have nothing doing
there than to come to the airport and welcome me,
constituting nuisance, so we re-deployed the
workers and closed down the place. Till date, we
have not missed them, which means they were
really doing nothing there”.
“I urge all of us to pray for greedy people in this
country; they are accumulating what they don’t
need, stop accumulating things for your children”,
he charged politicians, stressing that he had never
bought a car for any of his children.
“I have told them to buy cars when they make
their money, I have also never celebrated birthday
for them. They can do that when they leave my
house. We should stop wasting public fund”. —

level of greed indeed!

Governor Obi speaks well but then hope its not the usual Nigerian ostrich syndrome where they say the right things and do the opposite.

otokx: Governor Obi speaks well but then hope its not the usual Nigerian ostrich syndrome where they say the right things and do the opposite.

Do you believe this bulls-hit he's saying? Once a politician, always a politician....

Apostle Obi speakin, our leader no d right n best tin 2 do, why doin d opposite?

hmmm! Wished it is true.

Obi is one governor I know that has a conscience, check his antecedents, he is not a greedy politician. A very good Christian who understands the meaning of governance and can differentiate it from politics.
Dear governor, as you retire from politics, I pray that the good lord who have sustained you all this while will also pay you back for the good things you have done for anambra state.

Nigeria politics slogan is "If you can't beat them, you join them" but Peter Obi don't want to join them thats why He want to quit... He is right and I love his kind of person no matter what you people decide to say about his person, he is simply an example

spiritfada: Nigeria politics slogan is "If you can't beat them, you join them" but Peter Obi don't want to join them thats why He want to quit... He is right and I love his kind of person no matter what you people decide to say about his person, he is simply an example

Hmmm......... Peter obi's Fan.......

This man is not greedy. May God bless him. Our politician are wasting money as if there is no tomorrow. Imagine borehole that is been dock with N120,000 wil b awarded for N20,000,000. A km of now is now been constructed with one or two billion naira but in Ghana equivalent N5millions is use for a km of road. Thise is why Hilary Clinton says if there was no road in Nigeria that 20km will b constructed with N28billion. May God help us.

the level of greed and covetousness is very high.