NATIONAL: Nigerian leadership lacks capacity, character to lead – Peter Obi

FORMER governor of Anambra state, Peter Obi, has said those at the helm of affairs in the country lack the wherewithal to rescue it from its current predicaments.

Obi identified the wherewithal lacked by Nigerian leadership as capacity and character to lead.

He said this on Thursday at a zoom meeting organised by Dele Momodu of the Ovation Magazine and Mazi Ezeoke.

The former governor highlighted incompetent, insecurity, unemployment and corruption as factors affecting the growth of Nigeria.

Speaking on the theme: The Second never again conference: 51 years after Nigerian-Biafran Civil war, Obi asked Nigerians to be prayerful, noting that Nigeria has not learnt from its past mistakes as the country has yet to make a detour from the road that led to the 1967 civil war.

His words: When we say Never Again, we need to be prayerful. We are still going on the same road that will lead us to that same destination. We have incompetent leadership with total lack of capacity and character”.

Speaking further, he said: “Corruption is worst today than it has ever been.” Obi however, called on the “elites to sit down and pull the country out of the mess or it will consume all of us”.