Peter Obi donates to the UNN Dentistry Department at the University of Nigeria. His visit to the University was shortly after the burial of the former President of Nigeria.
Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s flag bearer in the 2023 general elections, has donated N15 million to the Faculty of Dentistry at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), Ituku-Ozala, Enugu State, to assist with their accreditation crisis.
Obi of the Labour Party decried the degradation of health facilities while donating N15 million to UNN students. The former governor of Anambra State acknowledged this in a message posted on his X page on Friday, July 18.
Peter Obi disclosed that he received a letter from the faculty’s re-accreditation fundraising committee, in which the committee requested “urgent intervention and support of about N40 million to upgrade their laboratory and scale up the department’s graduation and induction quota as part of their re-accreditation process.”
However, his donation was delayed due to the death and burial of former President Muhammadu Buhari. However, on Friday, Peter Obi paid an unplanned visit to the Faculty of Dentistry students and donated N15 million.
“Out of respect for the national mourning following the passing of our former President, I refrained from making any public statements during that period. Now that the mourning has officially ended, I felt it was important to act without delay. Today, I visited, because we cannot, in good conscience, continue to allow our young people to suffer due to leadership failure.
“As part of my unwavering commitment to advancing education and healthcare in our dear nation, I made a modest donation of ₦15,000,000 to the University of Nigeria Dental Students Association to assist in their continuous education as students of the medical and dental department of the school,” Peter Obi said.
Obi went on to say that leadership failure is to blame for the decline of health-care facilities across the country. He said that after receiving the letter signed by one of the students, he called the institution’s administration, who confirmed that the request was real.
So he decided to pay a visit to see how things were going, promising the kids that in addition to his personal donation, he would also seek out other generous persons to help the teachers.
Peter Obi tweeted: “I continue to question the kind of country we are building, where our leaders and public servants spend millions on luxury cars and ignore critical areas of development, health, education, and pulling people out of poverty. It is a tragedy of misplaced priorities.”
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