Veteran actor, Kanayo O. Kanayo has recounted how the 2023 presidential aspirant for Labour Party, Peter Obi gave him N250,000 for his mother’s funeral in 2011.
Obi was Anambra Governor at the time. Kanayo disclosed in an interview with Afia TV. Obi was unable to attend the burial but still made a touching gesture by calling and sending a token.
He said : “In 2011, I was to bury my mum and I had many senators I had as friends and I wrote to all of them. Two weeks after the funeral, Peter Obi called me at 1 am in his little voice, o sim ‘nwanne I just got your letter, I know the burial is over, You know I would have come if I had seen the letter’.
“He sent me exactly the price of a cow. You know somebody would have thought he would give you two million for burial in 2011.
“I think he went to the market and priced the cow, the cow was 250,000 and that is what he sent to me. But the story here is he was the Governor but he had time to call me.”
