{"id":44715,"date":"2023-12-23T13:28:59","date_gmt":"2023-12-23T13:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=44715"},"modified":"2024-12-12T13:30:03","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T13:30:03","slug":"peter-obi-raises-alerts-over-threat-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=44715","title":{"rendered":"Peter Obi Raises Alerts Over Threat To Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) has blown the lead on threats to his life for rejecting \u201cmind-blowing\u201d offers which are bribes, apparently to silence his opposition voice by the authorities that can only be traced to Aso Rock.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>That gives credence to the allegation by Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that President Bola Tinubu and his All Progressives Congress (APC) want to swallow or decimate the opposition to foist a one-party state on the Nigeria.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Obi, who spearheaded the third force and shook up the political system in the last presidential election, did not name names on Sunday when he made the disclosure on X Space organized by ParallelFacts.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But he stood his ground that he is not afraid to die for what he believes is right.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cI can tell you the offers that I get today is mind blowing. On the other way round, for refusing the offer, what they want to do to me is also very frightening. But I am ready to go through anything,\u201d he stressed,<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cAs I keep telling people, when they say, \u2018Peter you\u2019re putting your life in danger,\u2019 if I die at sixty something, I did not die a young person. Some people died in their twenties, thirties and forties. And I have kids who are now graduates and doing their own things.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cIf I go today it\u2019s fair enough; as long as I don\u2019t deviate from these things that I said from the day I decided to get into government.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cI will always be on the right path.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Obi had reiterated his point last month that Nigeria will not see change until Nigerians destroy the structure of criminal enterprises created by politicians who kill, bribe, and lie to gain power and gaslight the populace to retain state capture.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He lamented the purchase of N160 million luxury SUVs for each federal lawmaker at a time the \u201cpeople are suffering.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Obi spoke at Ajao Estate, Lagos when he went to condole with the family of constitutional lawyer and pioneer Ohanaeze Secretary General Ben Nwabueze who died at 91.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Nwabueze was \u201cconsistent, honest, and truthful about a better Nigeria,\u201d Obi recounted fondly.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cConstituency projects are criminal,\u201d he declared, referring to lawmakers.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cBecause the executive is also criminally minded, it succumbed to things like that. Rascality and bad behaviour has been our culture. We should go back to the parliamentary system of government. It allows the people we vote to speak to us.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Federal lawmakers insensitive to poor people\u2019s plight<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cIn Nigeria, Presidents delegate questions to aides. The criminality must be dismantled. People who already have cars are being given cars worth N160 million [each],\u201d Obi added.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cPeople are suffering, there\u2019s need to be modest. The person we vote for must be answerable to the people.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Obi narrated that in all the years he knew Nwabueze, he was \u201cconsistent in telling me things [were] not working. He was consistent in telling me that the Constitution needs to be amended and the right things done.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) has blown the lead on threats to his<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-frontpage"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/peter-obi.jpg",732,419,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/peter-obi-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/peter-obi-300x172.jpg",300,172,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/peter-obi.jpg",640,366,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/peter-obi.jpg",640,366,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/peter-obi.jpg",732,419,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/peter-obi.jpg",732,419,false],"elegant-magazine-featured":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/peter-obi.jpg",732,419,false],"elegant-magazine-medium":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/peter-obi.jpg",664,380,false],"elegant-magazine-medium-small":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/peter-obi.jpg",300,172,false],"elegant-magazine-thumbnail-small":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/peter-obi.jpg",50,29,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Imo Trumpeta"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?cat=3\" rel=\"category\">Frontpage<\/a>","tag_info":"Frontpage","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44716,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44715\/revisions\/44716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}