Obi noted that the old order holding the country down brags that they have structures yet youths remain unemployed and abandoned.
By Jeffrey Agbo
Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, on Saturday urged his teeming supporters in Osogbo, Osun State to vote out the old order called political structure and save Nigeria.
Welcomed by a jubilant crowd, Obi said the task of taking back Nigeria from the old order is a task that must be done using the PVCs.
The LP candidate attributed the country’s challenges to the so-called structures that the major political parties are flaunting that need to be dismantled by voting them out.
He noted that the old order holding the country down brags that they have structures yet youths remain unemployed and abandoned.
“Nigerians are hungry, youths have no job. It is not safe to travel anywhere in Nigeria today. All these challenges are caused by those who say they have party structures. But these structures have crippled Nigeria. I want me and you to destroy these structures by voting them out next month,” Obi said.
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The former Anambra State governor said that he and his running mate, Datti Baba-Ahmad, who had been successful in private lives before venturing into public service will rescue and rebuild the country.
“We are going to secure and unite Nigeria. We want Nigerians to be proud of being Nigerians. We will deliver a secured Nigeria. We don’t want Nigerians to be in IDP camps, we don’t want you to be a slave in your own country. We are going to govern this country with fear of God. We will give you jobs. We will change Nigeria from a consuming country to a producing country,” he said.
Obi urged the electorate not to allow the old order to use ethnicity and religion to deceive them. He said the electorate should consider merit, competence, character and capacity in next month’s election.
Obi also promised to fight corruption and return Nigeria to a production nation from its present consumption status.
While in Osogbo, the Labour Party candidate interacted with strategic groups including labour leaders, women and youths.