The presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 general elections, Peter Obi, has raised concerns over the welfare of the boy child in Nigeria, citing insecurity, poverty, and poor investment in education and healthcare as major threats to their future.
Obi made the remarks in a post shared on his X handle on Sunday to mark the International Day of the Boy Child.
Quoting former South African President, late Nelson Mandela, he wrote: “There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.”
He said the day offered an opportunity for “sober reflection” on the future of the boy child in Nigeria.
“Yesterday, the global community marked the International Day of the Boy Child. For me, it was a day of sober reflection on the future of the boy child in a nation like ours, where the horrible spate of insecurity, mass abductions, hunger, and inadequate investment in health and education constantly jeopardise the lives and futures of our children,” he wrote.
