Sack APC, vote in Labour Party to turn Nigeria around for good, he says
By Jeph Ajobaju, Chief Copy Editor
Peter Obi has urged fellow citizens to rally, and vote, and vote correctly, and break free of the cabals and racketeers and gangsters who have held them hostage in corruption, sleaze, and vileness all these years.
He said the 2023 election presents another rare opportunity to take back Nigeria from the All Progressives Congress (APC) which has failed the people and also built on the failure of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) which ruled before it.
To mark Nigeria’s Independence Day, millions of Diaspora Nigerians on 1 October poured onto the streets in Cardiff, Birmingham, London, Shanghai, and elsewhere overseas to express their support for Obi’s presidential run.
Those at home did simultaneously in Birnin Kebbi, Kaduna, Bauchi, Jos, Lagos, Ibadan, Osogbo, Ile Ife, Benin City, Asaba, Warri, Uyo, Calabar, and other cities and towns across Nigeria.
Some of the several placards they held in Lagos said: “Nigeria must be OBIdients”, “We do this for our future”, “Come 2023, Obi must be our president,” “ObiDatti, our joy is coming”.
Obidients who marched in Bauchi were fewer than the mega jumbo size in Lagos, yet they made their presence known with a long walk on busy roads across the city in the North East.
One of them, @Biggest Vine, tweeted: “We the people of Bauchi are here to support Peter Obi. We put behind our religion and tribe for the betterment of our dear nation as we match together as one. #Bauchiforpeterobi #4MillionMarch4PeterObi.”
“A new Nigeria is possible with good leadership,” said Delta State Alliance for Peter Obi Movement, organisers of the walk in Warri.
A clear chance to take Nigeria back
“Nigerians are now having before them a clear chance to take the country away from the failed politicians in APC and reinvest their votes in Obi/Datti candidacy, a trustworthy, capable and sincerely committed and focused presidency from 2023 onwards for guaranteed governance based on fine principles of democracy.
“The one presidential candidacy on offer with the best antecedence is the only available option for Nigeria to be quickly and efficiently repositioned and transformed into a producing country away from the current status of a consuming nation,” Obi stressed in a statement, per reporting by Vanguard
“On this occasion of marking the freedom and Independence of Nigeria, Nigerians have nothing to celebrate, so the nation must support the Obi/Datti candidacy in LP in the presidential election and win for it in the election with your votes, thus hopefully in the following years with Obi/Datti presidency, the country will have lots to celebrate.
“In all considerations, the country has absolutely nothing to celebrate on, rather a larger part of the overstressed population is gnashing their teeth as they struggle to exist among various loads of avoidable sufferings ….”
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Freedom from economic brigandage
“After 62 years of independence, we are still experiencing the constant collapse of our national grid, as many as seven times in a single year; our universities have been shut for eight months; our inflation rate is at an all-time high, as more than half of the population are battling extreme poverty; insecurity and violence are occurring at an alarming rate; oil theft is carried on with impunity and in all fronts – the nation bleeds …,” Obi added.
“The time has come for Nigerians to rescue their country from the clutches of failure, rascality and corruption that have held it down for long. That is the true independence Nigeria needs.
“We need independence from economic brigandage, tribal and religious disunity, poverty and unproductivity, poor quality education etc. The coming election in 2023 should be strictly based on competence, character and integrity for us to make progress in the country.
“[If elected President,] I stand by my resolve to move the nation forward, from consumption to production, from sharing formula to production formula.
“With this, we can build the New Nigeria of our dreams. Fellow Nigerians, let us take back our nation and build a better society for ourselves and our children.”
