I’m still searching for a successor –Obi

Anambra State Governor Peter Obi on Monday said he was searching for the right person to succeed him in 2014.

The governor said this when a group of religious leaders visited him at his lodge in Amawbia and urged him not to let the people alone decide who his successor would be.

He said though he was yet to find anyone a suitable successor, the people of Anambra State needed to be vigilant to ensure that a man of character and integrity becomes the next governor of the state.

He said he would continue to pray to God to give the state somebody better than himself and not a person without character, who might jeopardise the future of the state.

“He must not be a professional politician that sees politics not as a vocation to advance the progress of civilisation, but an avenue to steal the people’s money,” he said.

He said the person to come after him should be humble enough to realise that everybody is a human being that is entitled to respect as the image of God.

The leader and the President of the group, Rev. Innocent Obumneme, said they had come to the governor to express concern over the quality of the people aspiring to be governor.

He said some of the aspirant were merely thinking that running for public office had to do with the amount of money they had.

Obumneme urged the governor not to leave the choice of his successor to the people alone.

“You have a part to play and that posterity would not forgive you if after eight years, you allow a “fool” to take over the state because of his ability to buy everybody,” he said.