Obi Faults Tinubu’s ‘Labour Till Death’ Comment, Says There’s Dignity In Labour

By Frederick Peters, KADUNA

NEWSDAILYNIGERIA: The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has faulted the ‘ labourer till death’ comment credited to APC’s presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, which the party and its members considered derogatory.

The LP presidential hopeful however mildly replied Tinubu by saying, the party will always show love when showed hatred adding that “there is dignity in Labour”

Obi disclosed this on wednesday, in osogbo, the Osun state capital, at a mega rally to support the governorship candidate of the party, Lasun Yusuf.

He said: “I listened to our chairman when he said that somebody said ‘they can labour till death’.

“When they show you hatred, Labour Party will show them love. There is dignity in labour.”

Earlier, Tinubu, at the grand rally for the re-election of APC candidate, Adegboyega Oyetola, on Tuesday, had said: “They said some are in Labour, they will remain labourers till death.”

He also called on the people of Osun to support the party’s candidate in the governorship poll to give the state better leadership

In the same vein, the LP’s candidate, Lasun blast Tinubu, saying his comment about the Labour Party by the APC leader was inconsistent with the attributes of a virtuous Yoruba man.