FCT, Abuja – Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 general election, has said his position on church vigils was distorted.
TimesNow.com.ng recalls that Obi stirred strong conversations on social media after saying Nigeria has to turn night vigils to night shifts so that citizens can be more productive.
Obi made the remark during a recent video interview on The Honest Bunch podcast. A trending snippet of the interview was seen by TimesNow.com.ng.
While some commended his proposal as a means to enhance productivity, others condemned it as an infringement on religious traditions.
Making clarification via Ibrahim Umar, his media aide, Obi stated that there has been “a huge twist” in his interview.
The statement by Obi’s camp partly reads:
Earlier, TimesNow.com.ng reported that Obi berated the Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led government for arraigning minors who participated in the August ‘End Bad Governance’ protest before the court.
Obi pointed out that the scenes are “disturbing and condemnable” while also alleging poor treatment of the children in custody.
Source: TimesNow.com.ng
