The Labour Party (LP) presidential campaign rally in Enugu on Thursday (today) was massive with thousands of supporters overwhelming the flagbearer, Peter Obi, in all the places he visited.
Security operatives had a hectic day controlling weeping and cheering supporters who struggled to have a glimpse of him.
Addressing a rally of mammoth supporters at the Michael Okpara Square, Obi declared to the jubilant crowd that a new Nigeria is possible, noting however that Nigeria have to remove failed leaders first.
“A new Nigeria is possible. You can’t drive from here to Onitsha. After 24 years they can’t complete Enugu to Onitsha, a 200-kilometre road. 24 years they can’t complete Enugu to Portharcout, 159 kilometers. And they still want power again, to do what?”
Obi said he is in the race to rescue Nigeria. “Someone called my attention to a publication that says my company has been frozen in the United Kingdom, I laughed because I left UK since 2006. I told the white man that I am done with your country, I am going back to my country. I don’t have any residence permit of any other country,” he said.
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The former Anambra State governor said that if given the mandate he and his running mate, Yusuf Baba- Ahmad, “will secure and unite Nigeria, we will ensure that police will become your friend. We will recruit more people at all levels of our security agencies, we will look after them and we will insure them in case anything happens to them or their families. So they will do their work. We will ensure there is rule of law in Nigeria.”
Obi assured the people that his government will restructure the international airports in Enugu, Abuja, Lagos, Kano and Porthacourt to make it competitive with others across the globe.
“If we are in government, if you are in South East, you don’t need to go anywhere to fly to any part of the world. People will fly from Abuja to any part of the world. They will from Lagos, Kano, Port Harcout to every part of the world because the country will be booming again”
The Vice Presidential candidate in his own remarks at the rally said that beside, “Peter Obi, any other person contesting election in 2023 is deceiving himself. Peter Obi is one exemplary Nigerian who is moving Nigeria from disunity to unity. He will take Nigeria from consumption to production”