Former governor of Anambra state and presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP)r. Peter Obi has said he does not need political structure to be president as long as the people are behind his aspiration.
He said on Sunday that a political structure would not determine his fate on the ballot next year, stating that his hope lies in the Nigerian masses to reject the status quo.
“Whenever I hear of NO STRUCTURE, my answer to it is simple; the 100 million Nigerians that live in poverty will be the structure,” Mr Obi said on Twitter, adding that- “The 35 million Nigerians who don’t know where their next meal will come from will be the structure.”
The former Anambra governor’s ambition has been dismissed as unserious because he has no practical political base to win a presidential election in a multi-ethnic and multi-religious country like Nigeria
“The elderly, our mothers, fathers, and the old ones dying or being owed gratuity/pension will be the structure. ASUU; the lecturers that are being owed, and the students who are not in school will be the structure,” Mr Obi said. “We’ll create the structure, and they’ll see what the structure is all about. The structure is about human beings.”