“The Criminal Minded Likely to Grab Power” – Pat Utomi

Mr. Oyibo Chukwu, who was the Labour Party Senatorial candidate for Enugu East Senatorial District, was murdered and set ablaze on Wednesday evening 23^rd February, 2023 alongside other party members at Amaechi Awkunanaw, Enugu South Local Government Area of Enugu State.

It was gathered that undisclosed persons accosted them while riding in a Toyota Sienna Vehicle.

Prof. Pat Utomi, while reacting to the gruesome killing said, “We have made politics too attractive for criminally minded people, and so the Nigerian states have become almost a criminal enterprise.

Speaking Arise Television’s Morning Show on Thursday, the Convener of BIG-TENT, a coalition of Political Parties. Social Movements and Civil Society Organizations for Obi-Baba-Ahmed-Datti, said the the Nigerian states have become almost a criminal enterprise.

“The most criminal minded are the ones who are likely to grab power in the way Nigeria is configured.

“What do you do when that perception goes into global thinking that those who run Nigeria are criminals?”