Enlist in security forces, there’s dignity in serving our fatherland- Obi to Igbo youths

The Presidential Candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, successful the January 2027 election, Mr Peter Obi has called connected Igbo youths to enlist successful information forces, saying determination is dignity successful serving one’s fatherland.

Obi stated this on Friday when helium visited the location of Lieutenant General Isaac Chikadibia Obiakor to condole with the household connected the passing of the general, during his burial ceremonial successful Awka, the Anambra State capital.

Obi eulogised the precocious subject wide arsenic an upright serviceman who served with integrity, but expressed unhappiness that specified men were ne'er celebrated arsenic a people of respect and dignity for the bureau they held and the sacrifices they made for the country.

Obi said: “Obiakor served astatine the highest level arsenic an ambassador astatine the United Nations Peace Keeping Force, but I’m unhappy that radical similar him are not celebrated enough.

“Just ideate if today was the burial of a wide successful the occidental world. In this country, we person mislaid idiosyncratic arsenic large arsenic a Chief of Army Staff and our president was not there, the Vice President was not determination and governmental dense weights were not there. That shouldn’t be. It should person been a spot wherever each of america travel unneurotic to springiness them the honour deserving of the sacrifices they made for the nation.”

Obi urged youths not to beryllium deterred, but to ever enrol successful specified roles. He said: “I impulse our youths to spot t...