Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), in the just concluded election, Peter Obi has knocked President Bola Ahmad Tinubu over a video showing 124 vehicles in his convoy during the President’s recent visit to Lagos State.
Obi, while responding to journalists on Thursday, in Awka, Anambra State, stressed that “The present Nigeria requires that all those who serve and lead must do so by example.
“Their behaviour and their public conduct must be in consonance with what society requires today. We cannot continue to preach for the people to sacrifice without sacrificing too.
The sacrifice must now start from the leaders, visibly, measurably at all times because the people are suffering; and we must now be at the forefront of the suffering.”
While he admitted to having not seen the video footage, the former Anambra State governor’s latest advice is coming about two weeks after the President in a Democracy Day address on June 12, 2023, asked Nigerians to sacrifice more in the wake of the federal government’s removal of subsidy on petrol.
The government’s action which led to skyrocketing prices of goods and services.