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Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of Labour Party (LP), on Thursday said his job in 2023 is to wrest power from those oppressing Nigerians and return it to the people.
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!The LP presidential flagbearer, who described present and former leaders as drivers without a sense of direction, while insisting that nobody knows where the country is headed, maintained that his administration would provide leadership which, he said, had been lacking.
Addressing a gathering of support groups at a Labour Party & Coalition for Peter Obi Leadership Summit which took place in Abuja, Obi said, “Beyond 2023, we will no longer allow drivers who do not know where they are going to drive us.
“Our job is to take power from those who have it and give it back to you. We have a country called Nigeria but we don’t have Nigerians. What we want to do is to create Nigerians.
“The only way to create Nigerians is to make people have hope in Nigeria and the only way they will have faith in Nigeria is that there is hope in Nigerians.
“The only thing that is lacking in this country is leadership. And that is what we intend to provide.
We are not trying to do something else. Leadership is what Datti and I want to provide. We are not looking for anything.
“In 2023, we will no longer allow drivers that don’t know where we are going. We will remove that driver. We will not allow him to continue.
We will put another driver to continue because what we have now, and what is happening in Nigeria is that you don’t know where you are going, the driver doesn’t know where the vehicle is going, so every road leads us there.
“But we don’t want to worry. All we say is that 2023 onwards, we will no longer allow that situation.
For now, we will manage it to the end.” He also pledged to return the country to production. Obi said: “All we want to do is to move this country from consumption to production.
“We have a country where 100 million people live in poverty, with 60% unemployment. Only 47% are working. About 73% are not working and over 15 million are out of school.
“We live in a country where 200 million people exist on only 4,000 megawatts of electricity”.
He further expressed confidence that if 20% of the country’s debt was given to entrepreneurs, government would have solved the country’s unemployment problems, as he noted that Nigeria has one of the most talented and energetic youth population.
He stressed that if properly supported, this population will change the world.
