Kastina attack: Peter Obi stoned by people he wants to save, Ohanaeze Youth laments
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Ohanaeze Youth Council (OYC), the apex socio-cultural youth organization of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, has condemned in totality, the recent attack on the Obi-Datti presidential campaign convoy at Kastina, saying that Peter Obi was stoned by people he wants to save.
It could be recalled that the presidential candidate of Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Gregory Obi, on Tuesday narrated how his campaign team was attacked in Katsina State.
Obi’s team, while on a state-to-state tour, had touched down in Katsina on Monday when some unruly youths believed to be of the All Progressives Congress (APC) stock launched the attack.
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Reacting to the ugly incident, the National President of Ohanaeze Youth, Comrade Igboayaka O. Igboayaka, frowned at the attack.
Comrade Igboayaka called for more intensive campaign and political sensitization and reorientation of the teenagers and the Youth in Kastina, Sokoto, Gombe, Kano, and Kaduna.
In a release made available to newsmen, Igboayaka asserted that those that stoned Peter Obi were instigated by some politicians in Kastina, Sokoto, Gombe, Kano, Kaduna, who according to him, had deprived the teenagers and youths basic education in order to keep them in perpetual slavery.
“It’s very ironical that those that attacked Peter Obi are those he has planned to lift out of poverty, both intellectual poverty and material poverty.
“The incident that happened to Peter Obi is evidence of political brainwashing going on in some Northern states by selfish and wicked politicians to create more Alamajiris.
“Most Northern Teenagers and youths are deliberately denied education by politicians in the North, with a view toto keeping them as beggars and shoe shiners, while the same Northern Governors, Senators, Ministers, Federal House of Representatives members State House of Assembly members, Director in federal and State agencies send their own children to the best schools in world.
Continuing, be said: “Recent statistics prove that illiteracy in Nigeria, is more rampant in the Northern States, as incited by some Northern Leaders.
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“It’s obvious that those that stoned Peter Obi missed their target which should be the Some Northern past and present Presidents starting from President Mohammadu Buhari, State Governors, Senators etc.
“The Attack on Peter Obi should throw every progressive minded person in the North to reflect and meditate on why illiteracy is higher in the Northern Nigeria than Southern Nigeria even after being most regions producing the most Heads of State and President of Nigeria since 1960 of Nigeria Independence.”
Igboayaka, therefore, urged the few enlightened youths in North to use their local languages (mother tongue) to keep up with the sensitization and enlightenment of their teenagers and youths.
He said that such unruly youths is a harm the politicians from North have done to them since 1960.
He also urged them to prepare and massively elect Mr. Peter Obi and Datti Ahmed to lead the country as only guarantee to lift them out of poverty.
“It’s now very crucial that the first inaugural speech of Peter Obi when elected must capture declaration of compulsory free education in most of Northern states from primary school to secondary school with best modernized equipment and infrastructure,” Igboayaka concluded. Read more.
