Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, says people in the government are responsible for the massive oil theft that has blocked Nigeria from benefiting from the boom in oil prices and deprived Africa’s largest economy of much-needed petrodollars. “People in the government are the ones stealing oil. Nobody here can steal oil,” Obi said during the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) private sector economic forum on Monday. “There’s no way under my watch that we will not find a solution to oil theft,” Obi, who estimated that Nigeria has lost about $5 billion in the m…