The presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 election, Peter Obi has stressed the importance of exemplary leadership in confronting Nigeria’s security challenges.
Obi said this while answering questions from a cross-section of Nigerians during an interactive X Space on Sunday.
The two-term former Anambra governor said Nigeria’s security challenges requires leaders who demonstrate discipline, responsibility and accountability.
Responding to questions on how he would address security challenges, Obi narrated a personal experience to illustrate his approach to leadership.
Obi said he once travelled on British Airways while serving as a governor and encountered an aircraft toilet that was badly messed up.
According to him, a woman who worked with the Lagos state government under Babatunde Fashola opened the toilet, saw its condition and walked away.
Obi, who was a governor at the time, said he went into the toilet and cleaned it himself without informing anyone.
“There was somebody who works for the Lagos State Government — for Fashola’s government. She works with a law firm,” Obi said.
“We were coming back on British Airways years back; I was a serving governor. The entire toilet was messed up. She opened that toilet to use it; it was messed up and she walked away.
“I went in there, and she came back. The entire place was cleaned. She didn’t even tell me, but she told a minister and somebody else where she works in the office.
”She said, ‘I can’t believe this’. The people called me; I said I cleaned it because maybe I would be the next person that would go back there to use it.
“When you see things that are wrong, clean them. I don’t have house help in my house; everybody knows that. Let us stop all this fake life.”
