2023: I’ll Quit Election if Anyone Can Prove I Receive Land As Governor – Obi

Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s (LP) presidential candidate, has threatened to end his campaigning for the 2023 general elections if it is revealed that he took a gift of land while serving as governor of Anambra State.

This was said on Friday by the 61-year-old former governor at the Oba Ewuare II palace in Edo State.

When the presidential candidate for the LP invaded Edo for campaigning ahead of the elections in February of next year, he paid a visit to the respected Benin king.

When Oba Ewuare II welcomed the politician to his palace, he used the chance to explain a viral document in which Obi rejected a land allotment from the Anambra State Government while he was a serving governor.

“Your Excellency, somebody show me a letter where land was given to you in your state and you politely returned it that you don’t need it; that you are there to serve and so on. Correct?” the first-class monarch asked.

“Very correct,” Obi responded.

“If anybody sees a piece of land allotted to me, my wife, any of my family members, directly or indirectly when I was governor, I will stop campaigning,” the LP presidential candidate noted.

Obi’s two-term, sporadic administration as governor of Anambra from 2006 to 2014 was hampered by legal disputes that reached the Supreme Court.

In the 2019 general elections, Obi served as Atiku Abubakar’s vice presidential running mate for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

But he left the party in early 2022 and joined the LP, where he won the party’s nomination for president in 2023.

Along with Atiku and Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, the ex-governor is running for Aso Rock in 2023.