He called on governors and those in political positions to use their offices to make the lives of the people who voted them into power better, explaining that the positions they occupy were temporary.
Nwobodo said this on Friday at his residence when his kinsmen from Amechi and Obeagu Awkunanaw, Enugu State, came to solicit his support to reclaim their ancestral land that was reportedly acquired by the previous administration in the state.
Nwobodo warned governors to have the mind of service.
He said, “The power of the governor is temporary. When you are being sworn in, you think the world is now at your feet. One day, it will end and you will become an ordinary person and when you steal their money, when they see you on the way, they will say this is the man who stole our money.
“Tell me I don’t have all the facts, but the mere fact that a governor can sit down and take N1bn, N3bn, N5bn and N100bn, that is not the kind of governorship we want. It is not good for us. Why are you amassing wealth and for whom?
You should use it for helping the poor, the people who voted you into power. Make sure you build factories for them, build schools for them.”
Nwobodo stated that trust was key to attaining the position of a governor, lamenting that some politicians no longer regarded the people when vying for public offices once they had the electoral institution and the police working for them.
“So my advice for people who want power is if they don’t want to serve, they should sit down. But if they want to serve, they should serve with all their conscience.
They should not go and acquire something that does not belong to them by force and then when they know they are wrong, they will now go to court. It is sad,” he said.
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