Obi to negotiate with IPOB and other separatists to end restiveness
By Jeph Ajobaju, Chief Copy Editor
Biafran and other separatist agitators will be brought to a negotiating table where their concerns about justice and fairness will be addressed for an equitable Nigeria, Peter Obi has promised, if he is elected to be the main man in the Villa.
He stressed at his stump at All Saints Cathedral Field in Onitsha that the Presidency is not a retirement home and Nigeria needs a stingy leader at the moment.
Obi said he owes no one any apology for being stingy, adding he is the youngest, the fittest, and the most qualified for President among the four leading contestants.
Datti Baba-Ahmed, his running mate on the platform of the Labour Party (LP), told the crowd he joined the Obi ticket because of Obi’s belief in justice, equality, and fairness.
He asked Nigerians to hold them responsible if they fail in their promises, insisting the ballot on 25 February is as good as won once all Obidients vote en mass for the LP ticket.
Obi’s wife, Margret, urged registered voters to collect their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) as they are their weapons to vote out bad leaders and vote in good ones.
Before the rally in Onitsha, Obi met with Anambra Traditional Rulers and other stakeholders at Government House, Awka he once occupied as Governor.
“The Presidency is not about turn, but about capacity because if it is about turn, people like us would insist that it is our turn and should be considered.
“The job of a President is not a retirement home or for any kind of settlement but about uniting and rebuilding the country,” he told the massive crowd in Onitsha, per The PUNCH.
“They said that I am a stingy man and I say they didn’t say that I am extravagant or that I embezzled public funds, only that I am stingy, and I tell you the job and the Presidency of our country needs a stingy person.”
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No one is safe, families turned into beggars
Obi pledged to negotiate with separatist agitators to make peace in a country overrun by restiveness, but if those causing insecurity and restiveness refuse change, “we will tell them that we have a government in Nigeria.”
He added: “All we are coming to do is end suffering and build a new Nigeria. In Nigeria today, nobody is safe, and families are begging to eat. We will secure and unite Nigeria.
“What I did in Anambra, I will do in Nigeria. We will negotiate, but whoever refuses, we will tell him there is a government.
“Anambra is a trading and manufacturing city, we will support all businesses. We will do same in Lagos, Kano, Kaduna and Borno. Every part of Nigeria will be productive.
“We will open roads. Any tarred road you see in Onitsha was tarred by me. I built the best road network in Nigeria. Those who left Nigeria will come back; we will face exportation to stabilise and reverse the dwindling fortunes of the naira if we assume power.
“There is no combination between us and others, if you have not created wealth, you cannot manage it. Datti and I are businessmen. The only way Nigeria can change is to hand it over to wealth creators.”