Nigerians evidently rely more on Peter Obi when they need problems solved than they rely on their government.
It’s quite surreal that Peter Obi isn’t the president of Nigeria yet, he is more responsive than the PRESIDENT of the country.
You’d recall that the dentistry department of UNN were at the verge of losing their admission until Peter Obi came through.
Peter Obi heard of their predicament and as usual visited the students, not the school management. No fanfare.. No unnecessary protocols.. Spoke with the students and donated N15million naira.
Again, the students of University of Calabar, UNICAL are facing similar problems, and reached out to Peter Obi for solutions instead of reaching out to the Federal Government who owns the school.
You’d also recall that Peter Obi calls for Justice over the “5-years Unpaid” staff members of Unizik. This is just an individual that’s not even in power.. Using his money, time and resources to cater for the needs of ordinary Nigerians without making noise.
This is just a fraction of the several other schools Peter Obi had visited, donating millions to aid in fixing the dilapidated infrastructures in those institutions.
Nursing school across the nation are the highest beneficiaries of Peter Obi’s benevolence.
I doubt if majority of Nigerians actually know that Peter Obi is PRO-CHANCELLOR of a Nigerian University for over 10years now.
He wrote below on his x profile:
“No Student Should Suffer for Leadership Failures
Following my visit yesterday to the Faculty of Dental Studies at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), I was inundated with reports concerning developments at the University of Calabar (UNICAL), where issues around the Dental students’ graduation and induction quota have sparked serious concern. While the specifics of the matter are still unfolding, I understand that the Vice Chancellor has recently assured the public that steps will be taken to resolve the crisis. I appreciate her for this promise, and I look forward to a favourable resolution.
Whatever the root cause, one thing is clear: no student should suffer due to what I consider a failure of leadership. We must give our youth the necessary education, particularly in critical fields like science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).
Education in these areas is far too important to be jeopardised by bureaucratic or institutional lapses. Whatever the issue, the students must remain in school and graduate appropriately without compromising standards.
I feel their concern, as I faced a similar situation as the former Governor of Anambra State, when the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria shut down our medical school at Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, citing the absence of a teaching hospital—a basic requirement for accreditation. Students who had already spent 3 to 4 years studying medicine were told they could only graduate as biologists or in other science courses. I had just assumed office, barely one year in, when I met the crisis, but I refused to let those innocent students become victims.
I pleaded with the Council and told them that the children did not cause the issue and should not be made to suffer for it. I promised to take full responsibility and committed to building a functional teaching hospital within two years. They told me it was impossible to build such a facility in two years. But I insisted, because leaders must be solution-driven, especially when the lives and futures of our young people are at stake.
In less than 18 months, I fulfilled that promise. I built and commissioned what is now known as Odumegwu-Ojukwu Teaching Hospital in Awka, saving not just the accreditation of the medical faculty but the futures of young aspiring doctors to this day.
I call on the Federal Government to give this situation the urgent and decisive attention it deserves by providing both financial and institutional support to the university leadership. The Vice Chancellor of the University of Calabar and her team must be empowered to resolve this issue immediately, to ensure that no student is made to suffer for circumstances that are in no way their fault.
At this critical time in our nation, we cannot afford to continue the downward trend of neglecting education and healthcare, or of failing to lift people out of poverty, while wasting resources on areas that bring no tangible value.
Our children must not continue to lose their future in Nigeria.
A New Nigeria is POssible. -PO”.
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Tell me why any Nigerian should finish reading this and still decide to vote incompetence?
Obiasogu David wrote on his x profile:
“I view, with mixed feelings, the calls from Nigerians on Peter Obi to intervene in national crisis or problems that befall federal educational institutions under the Federal government.
On the one hand, I feel very impressed that Nigerians know and appreciate Obi’s problem-solving capacity and will.
On the other hand, I am troubled that, while a government that is elected to solve such a national crisis exists, the people snub the government and seek intervention from a private citizen – Obi.
How more usel£ss and utterly irrelevant can Tinubu’s government be that Nigerians are calling on Peter Obi to intervene in the problems Tinubu is elected and duly paid for?
What is the use of a government if citizens find confidence in the capacity and will of a private individual rather than the government in a deep crisis and urgent intervention?”.