Everybody’s attacking Obi, whereas he worries about Nigeria — Former NERC chair, Amadi

An ex-chairman of the Nigeria Electrical energy Regulatory Fee, NERC, and Director of the Abuja Faculty of Social and Political Ideas, Sam Amadi, has lamented what he described because the rising sample of unwarranted assaults on former Labour Get together LP presidential candidate, Peter Obi, by senior authorities officers.

This was as he famous that whereas Nigerian politicians discuss him, Obi talks solely about Nigeria’s undeserving situation.

Amadi, in a commentary he shared on his official X account, noticed that it has grow to be a troubling pattern for members of the current administration to regularly goal Obi, regardless of his constant deal with Nigeria’s dire socio-economic realities, somewhat than on personalities.

The previous NERC chairman cited the current criticisms from the Presidency, the Governor of Lagos State, and Senate President, Godswill Akpabio as examples of this misplaced focus.

DAILY POST studies that Obi had not too long ago said that the “labour of our heroes previous has gone in useless”-a sobering reflection on the nation’s present state of affairs.

The remark was met with a pointy rebuke from Senator Akpabio, who accused the previous governor of Anambra State of being disrespectful and dishonouring the legacy of Nigeria’s founding fathers.

Lagos State Governor had additionally lashed out at Obi, reacting to feedback he made throughout a current international engagement, the place he critiqued the nation’s financial trajectory.

In the identical vein, the Presidency had earlier dismissed Obi’s concepts and proposals on governance and financial reform. Amadi, nevertheless, provided a counter-narrative, arguing that whereas the political elite expend vital vitality attacking Obi, the person himself stays resolutely centered on Nigeria’s structural challenges and the pressing want for reform.

“If elections have been a purely rational train, Peter Obi is up to now the one candidate who should be elected”, Amadi said.

He bemoaned what he known as the disproportionate consideration paid to Obi by high-ranking authorities figures, asserting that Obi has steered clear of non-public assaults and has, as a substitute, persistently superior a imaginative and prescient for nationwide renewal rooted in prudence, accountability, and financial revitalisation.