Mr Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s Presidential candidate, says the conviction of his Campaign Organisation’s Director-General, Dr. Doyin Okupe, for violating the Money Laundering Act would not demoralize him in his quest to be Nigeria’s President.
Speaking during an interaction with journalists in Uyo at the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Akwa Ibom State Council Secretariat on Monday, Obi said he was perturbed by the conviction and would continue with his campaign and allow the due process of law to take its course.
“I am hearing about it just like you. I am still studying what is coming out of the court and everything. I believe in the rule of law. It is not going to demoralise me.
“Today, when I arrived Akwa Ibom somebody asked me why I haven’t been using my aircraft because it has been grounded and all that, and I said to him that nothing demoralises me.
“In my life, I have never stayed where they dropped me, otherwise, I would have been where they dropped me before. This election, if they like, let them do anything about people who are around me. I will get there”
The former Anambra State governor said he was determined to dismantle the existing political structure in the country which encouraged corruption and spread poverty among Nigerians.
“The structure they have today is the structure we want to destroy. It is the structure of criminality. It is the structure that produced 133 million people living in poverty.
“It is the structure that produced 20 million out-of-school children. It is the structure that has made Nigeria surpass India in infant mortality. It is the structure that will destroy Nigeria and we want to destroy that structure”
