By David Akinmola
The Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has called on the federal government to declare a state of emergency in all states recently affected by the flood.
Obi made the call on Wednesday in Taraba State where he went to sympathise with the victims of the flood disaster.
Obi, who visited the various locations affected by the disaster in the Ibi Local Government Council of the state, was also observed to have beckoned at the government to adopt the global best practice that would help in desilting all its waters to avert a recurrence of floods.
Piqued by the havoc wreaked by floods across the nation, he said, “We are calling on the government to come with interventions, declare all the affected states a disaster area.”
Believing that it is not too late for the government to arrest the situation, he argued that “what the federal government has to do to stop this is to ensure that the waters are desilted.”
The candidate, who was of the view that water bodies or rivers ought to contribute to the well-being of the people, felt dejected that the rivers have become sources of calamities, a situation which believed can be reversed.
He admonished other presidential candidates to as a matter of urgency suspend their campaigns by assisting in raising awareness regarding the predicaments of flood victims across the country.
Several communities in Ibi, Lau, and Karim-Lamido local government councils of the state, it would be recalled were recently submerged by floods following heavy downpours that lasted several hours in the aforementioned councils.
