Obi said he was used to transforming failed businesses and if elected he and Datti Baba-Ahmed will turn Nigeria around.
By Jeffrey Agbo
Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi, on Thursday called on the electorate to vote for him and his running mate because of their abilities to turn Nigeria’s fortune around for the better.
“Datti Ahmed and I are not in this business for anything, we are committed to building a new Nigeria that is possible. Hold us responsible, we are prepared for the job,” Obi told a large crowd of supporters in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
Obi said he was used to transforming and turning around failed businesses and if elected by February 25, 2023 he and Datti Baba-Ahmed will turn Nigeria around.
In a response to a question from a supporter, Obi said, “Somebody asked me today, with all these monies they have stolen how would you transform Nigeria, and I said, I have turned around failed businesses; Nigeria is a failed country, give it to us we will turn it around. We want Nigerians to hold us responsible for turning around this country.
“I am not looking for anything. I have been a governor for eight years. I didn’t owe salary or gratuity or pension, but I left $150 million and N30 billion. Go to Anambra State, if you see one piece of land allocated to Peter Obi, the wife or anybody close to me, I will stop running.”
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Obi reiterated his earlier position that next year’s election would not be about whose turn it is, tribe or religion, but about character capacity, and competence.
The LP candidate told the jubilant crowd that his desire is, “to build a society where people will be secured, where a child of nobody will be able to be president of this country.”
According to Obi, time is now to change Nigeria, “We must vote for someone with competence, someone with capacity and capability. This job is a job for people with physical and mental energy, not retirement home.”
National Chairman of the Labour Party, Julius Abure, who also addressed the rally said that the 2023 presidential election offers Nigerians the opportunity and time “to recover our country from those who have put us in poverty, in hunger and unemployment.”
Music group, P-Square, were on hand to entertain the crowd of supporters of the Obidient Movement who thronged Yakubu Gowon stadium for the flag-off campaign.