The Labour Party presidential candidate has suspended his campaign to visit victims of flood disaster and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Benue State.
Obi, yesterday, visited Daudu IDP camp and flood victims at Rice Mill in Makurdi. Addressing the victims, Obi said: “The flood is not an accident. It was meant to happen. It was something the Federal Government could have controlled but they failed to do something.”
He said he suspended his campaign to go round the country, to sympathize with those displaced and in IDP camps.
He said Benue State should not be suffering from flood as it was already battling with other humanitarian crisis like herders/farmer clashes.
“So I have come to identify withthe victims in my own little way…This is a huge loss on Nigeria. These are people who would have been back to the farms and producing the food that we eat today. Because of that we have food inflation and that is why I say that if you give me the opportunity of serving you, this situation will never occur anywhere in the country. If I become president, I will bring a permanent solution to the problem.”
Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Professor Anthony Ijoho, SAN, who conducted Obi round the areas, thanked him for coming to identify with Benue people emphasizing that he was the only presidential candidate that has come to visit the people.
