A 74-retired colonel, Chinyere Obi, has expressed displeasure at the behaviour of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 25th February election, Mr Peter Obi and his party officials for allegedly neglecting her after sustaining a gunshot wound owing to her commitment to the party’s activities in Imo State.
Speaking with reporters in Abuja on Thursday, 6th July, the retired Colonel said nobody from the LP visited her when she got shot in the leg while campaigning for Mr Obi.
She said: “I had to sell my Honda Pilot SUV for N1.5 million in June to be able to treat the gunshot wound. “At my age, 74, I am selling my things to heal completely.”
She noted that she was a retired colonel with pension and entitlements and do not seek or ask for financial help from the LP presidential candidate. The 74-year-old said she was angered that not even a single person from the party came to check up on her at the hospital while treating the gunshot wounds and undergoing recovery routines.
She said: “As a retired colonel, I have my pension and entitlements. I wasn’t even asking for money. My anger is that nobody reached out, not even one person came to the hospital at the FMC.
“I fought and campaigned for Obi for the youths so that Nigeria can change. I do not need anything, I am a British citizen and my children are all British citizens. I have nothing to lose or gain, I spent N5 million buying rice and visiting people, women across the country”.
Madam Obi said the problem started when she tried to protect a Labour Party’s polling unit agent in her hometown, Ideato South Local Government Area in Imo State. She noted that some unidentified political thugs had invaded the voting area during the election threatening the PU agent when she tried to intervene.
She said: “The next thing I heard was pooh-pooh! There were gunshots on my leg. I am diabetic, and this could have led to the amputation of my leg but nobody from the Labour Party, not Aburi (referring to LP’s National Chairman) or even Peter Obi sent a word or visited.
“It was only two people who sent me from the Labour Party. “I regret, I curse the day I joined the Labour Party. I was in the PDP, and when Obi joined the Labour Party, I followed him.”
She however urged President Bola Tinubu to intensify efforts to end insecurity in Nigeria, especially in the South-East region. She stated that she was confident in the capacity of President Tinubu, and she was sure he would end the hardship in the country.
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