NewStats: 3,265,253 , 8,186,132 topics. Date: Saturday, 14 June 2025 at 05:46 AM 1k6125

Peter Obi, the candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 presidential election has said because Nigeria is poorly governed, its citizens are all prisoners.

According to Obi, the various challenges in the country weighing citizens down, ranging from insecurity, high levels of poverty and unemployment, corruption and abuse of office, etc. have kept them prisoners.

Obi said this during his visit to the Nigerian Correctional Centre in Onitsha in Anambra State on Sunday.

In a post on X on Sunday, the former Anambra governor said, “In a poorly governed nation like ours, we must understand that we are all prisoners to the different challenges weighing us down, ranging from insecurity, high levels of poverty and unemployment, corruption and abuse of office, etc.”

He said, “I was happy to our brothers and sisters at the Nigerian Correctional Center, Onitsha, today, for their Thanksgiving Church Service to mark the end of the year 2023. I appreciated God with them, for the gift of life, irrespective of the many challenges faced through the year

“I thanked the Controller of Nigerian Correctional Service, Anambra State Command, for his efforts in ensuring that the correctional facility functions well. To the inmates, I reminded them that irrespective of their mistakes or reasons for their confinement, there is still a great future ahead of them, if they trust in God, work hard, and become law-abiding.

"I was, however, deeply concerned that such a large number of youths in their productive years are confined in the correctional center where they are largely unproductive.

“Many of the inmates are there as a result of the accumulated leadership failure in our country today. If we had a working society, we would not have such a huge number of our youths in different correctional facilities across the nation.”

"We, the political leaders, must therefore, begin to imbibe the spirit of sacrificial leadership to ensure that we build a progressive and secure nation, where our youths will be productively engaged for the benefit of society. By so doing, we will build the New Nigeria of our dreams,” he added.

https://saharareporters.com/2023/12/31/were-all-prisoners-poorly-governed-nigeria-peter-obi-tells-inmates

Nigeria has never had it this bad,APC destroyed every little bit of progress this Country had managed to make.

Now they have given Us another one,a maximum disaster as a President.

Kk

Unfortunately, most Yoruba people are wishing for Tinubu to resign for Obi to take over. Sadly hunger has reset their brians.

Obi is the most respected politician currently in Africa. Man is too much

True talk.

A smart politician would offer a message of hope, love and care. But did this juan offered lamentations, doom and wailing. I'm sure he's only succeeded in causing more pains to the prisoners. Obi ONKR

Yeah, not like it's better outside

Abi

Maybe not.

NA ONLY HIM BE PRISONER. DON'T SPEAK FOR ALL OF US.
ONLY FLAT HEADS WILL AGREE WITH HIM THO

The primary obligation of most prisoners is to escape.


Whether that means actually leaving or simply figuring out a way to handle things so you can escape is up to the prisoners,

I have said my own, the wise will understand

StrongAlphMale:
Unfortunately, most Yoruba people are wishing for Tinubu to resign for Obi to take over. Sadly hunger has reset their brians.

Obi is the most respected politician currently in Africa. Man is too much

ode.Obi nah Hype man.

Kuginzi:
https://saharareporters.com/2023/12/31/were-all-prisoners-poorly-governed-nigeria-peter-obi-tells-inmates

Was that how Anambrarians were all prisoners during his eight years due to poor governance

Peter Obi learning how to play opposition politics

Dear Pitobi, I am not a prisoner and shall never be one. However, every IPOB and their sympathizer is either currently a prisoner e.g Kanu or prospective one e.g Ekpa as well as their political godfather e g look into the mirror

Well said 👏👏👏👏👏

Clown ass nigga who poorly governed ndi anambra

Omo think of how hellish the country is for those struggling talk more of those behind bars...

Hmmmmmm

No be lie

This year will favour me and my family

Happy new year Mr president

ablejesus26:
Nigeria has never had it this bad,APC destroyed every little bit of progress this Country had managed to make.

Now they have given Us another one,a maximum disaster as a President.

Peter Obi made it possible for Tinubu to continue APC Ẹnikanlomọ shege promax by dividing PDP votes with his last minute defection to the communists’ labourers’ camp.

Ok

perfectly said
so apt

True Talk from the People's President!

This Useless APC govt has made Nigerians live in a 'Prisoner's Condition'.

If Not, Many Pple would Not be Escaping to Canada and UK every day
Or Begging for Rice in Tinubu's residence.

"Many of the inmates are there as a result of the accumulated leadership failure in our country today. If we had a working society, we would not have such a huge number of our youths in different correctional facilities across the nation.”


See the goat rationalising criminality and making excuses for it like how his followers make excuses for every of their criminals arrested for one nefarious activity or the other.

Those criminals are in there for their crimes against other people and here he is trying to absolve them of their criminality by blaming government.

He didn't see the useless society and culture that promotes materialism or bad parental guidance rather it is government that put them there.


Obi will never ever be President of Nigeria

This Obi is a clown beyond belief. An awfully dull and unintelligent parody of a leader always making disparate and asinine examples because of a desperation to 'famz' everyone including even criminals in prisons and lunatics in asylums.

The same clown who its he takes advice from a man now wishes to equate Nigerians to prisoner merely because he wishes to 'famz' inmates he is visiting who have been correctly and justly incarcerated for their crimes.

Na wa for this dude and his desperation to always talk patronisingly to Nigerians as if they are all dullard like him.