Apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has condemned recent attempt to arrest the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, in London, the UK, blaming the move on political enemies.
Ohanaeze said that any plot to embarrass and pull down Obi, because he had decided to legally pursue the mandate freely given him by Nigerians, will continue to fail.
Obi was reportedly interrogated at Heathrow Airport, London, on April 7, over his identity.
Obi disclosed this to longtime ally, Prof. Stella Okunna, who served under him in many capacities when he was the governor of Anambra State.
The sole aim of faking Obi’s identity was to use his name to commit crime in London and other parts of the world so as to get him implicated in dubious and criminal activities and rope him into any number of offences to get him out of the political space, Ohanaeze noted.
Reacting to the saga, Ohanaeze Ndigbo condemned “the embarrassment and evil plots to rope Peter Obi”, insisting that all of them will fail.
Speaking through its National Publicity Secretary, Dr. Alex Chidozie Ogbonnia Ohanaeze said:
“It is very unfortunate for those who want to rope in Obi and embarrass him. However, it was good it happened. After this, there will not be such a thing again anywhere in the world as they have been exposed.
“They have exposed their plots to the whole world. But whoever is playing such is wasting time and energy.
“It is very clear to the world that the man is a man of integrity and law abiding, who had been pursuing his mandate legally. So, any plot to rope him and embarrass him will continue to fail. They are being exposed.
“It is unfortunate that some Nigerians still want us back wards. But we will resist it, Nigerians will resist it, the youths will resist it because they want a future”.
.Nigerian leaders don’t understand importance of health, education -Obi
The Presidential candidate of Labour Party, LP, Mr. Peter Obi, Tuesday, lamented that Nigerian leaders failed to understand the importance of health and education to the people they rule.
He made the Lamentation in the premises of Immaculate Heart of Mary, IHM Sisters’ Convent, Nkpor, Idemili North Local Government Area, Anambra State, as the Archbishop of Onitsha Catholic Archdiocese and Metropolitan Archbishop of Onitsha Ecclesiastical Province, Most Rev. Valerian Maduka Okeke, performed the official opening of the newly completed IHM Specialist Hospital, Nkpor.
The ceremony which commenced with a concelebrated high mass officiated by Archbishop Okeke himself and assisted by the Catholic Bishop of Orlu Diocese, Most Rev. Augustine Ukwuoma and his Aguleri counterpart, Bishop Denis Isizoh, also featured free medical treatments to some patients, as well as freewill donations from eminent personalities in attendance.
In his homily during the mass, Archbishop Okeke charged the hospital administrators to be focused and maintain a standard of medical attention to their patients, adding that they should also maintain a moderate billing system so as not to scare their patients but at the same time generate enough funds to pay their staff and sustain their running costs.
Archbishop Okeke who received most outstanding pillar of support award at the occasion, also charged the management staff not to engage themselves in unnecessary power tussle thereby leaving their patients to suffer like the grass in a place where two elephants are fighting.
“Service of excellence is very vital to the success of every sector. It is good to always have a good packaging. Packaging is part of the service of excellence but excellent service itself is more important in every sector”, said the Archbishop.
Obi, who was honoured as most outstanding pillar of foundation by the hospital management, had while handing over a N2 million cheque to the hospital management, commended Archbishop Okeke for his consistency in maintaining a healthy and education friendly Archdiocese.
“The problem we have in our society today is that our leaders do not understand the importance of health and eduction, otherwise if they do, they would have placed health and eduction on top priority, knowing fully well that a healthy and educated nation is second to a developed country of the world”, he stated
Dr. A B C Orjiakor, a member of the IHM Sisters’ Healthcare System Board, who doubled as chairman of the occasion and also received outstanding support award, commended sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary for their efforts in expanding the hospital from a mere medical clinic to a specialist hospital, within a space of years.
Orjiakor urged them to liaise with the state government in ensuring that the hospital is functioning optimally in the service of God and humanity.
The Superior-General of IHM, Rev. Mother Mary Claude Oguh and the Chief Executive Officer, CEO of the hospital, Rev. Sister Maria Nkiruka Okafor, recalled that Archbishop Charles Heerey who founded IHM in 1937, did not rest on his oars until he established Boromeo hospital and by extension the IHM clinic which has now metamorphosed into a specialist hospital.
