Peter Obi: N20,000 Is Paid to Youths to Cause Confusion Across Nigeria

Some unidentified individuals, according to Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s 2023 presidential contender, pay Nigerian youths as little as N20,000 and N40,000 in an attempt to confuse the country’s electoral system.

According to Obi, who was speaking at John Hopkins University in the United States on the topic of “Politics and Change in Nigeria,” young people have been tricked into fighting against others who genuinely care about them.

He reminded young Nigerians that collecting money, especially peanuts, will ruin their promising future and that they should look for better methods to include transactional politics for the benefit of both themselves and the country.

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“People pay them to create confusion,” Obi stated. “As I stand here now, look at social media. All of the people who are being paid N20,000 to N40,000 a month to abuse you are young people who are fighting for their lives.”

According to the former governor of Anambra State, “you can get it right in Nigeria’s transactional politics, even though I am almost 60 and only have a few years left.”