Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi has
said after failing to deliver its electoral promises, Nigerians should be ready
to kick out both the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the major
opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 general elections.
Obi made the statement at the weekend when he featured in an
interview on news central tv.
Speaking on the lack of electricity across the country, Obi
said it is shameful that both the APC and PDP despite being in power
collectively for 24 years, could not move Nigeria’s power generation up from
4,000 to 5,000.
“The simple thing for Nigerians to ask themselves is, we
have been in this business for 24 years, are we on the right road? If you have
been in a situation for 24 years, people have been promising and not
delivering,” he said.
“Look at the two parties, have they delivered what they
promised? In 24 years, Nigeria could not increase its power generation from
4,000 to 5,000 or 6,000. Ask yourself the question, are we going to continue
with this? So, are you going to continue on the wrong road or turn and say ‘listen,
we have to do the right thing’”.
Obi said his track record as Anambra state governor for
eight years eminently qualifies him to lead Nigeria out of her present
situation which the two parties have plunged it into due to bad governance.
“Every section of Nigeria wants to have uninterrupted
electricity, don’t they? Every part of Nigeria wants to see good roads. Every
part of Nigeria wants to see the prices of food come down. Is there anywhere
you buy bread cheaper? If you do the right thing, people will follow you.
“The level of divisiveness is because you have not come to
bring people together. I will engage everybody constructively. I will sit down
and discuss with every group. We will dialogue with them; we will bring
everybody together in love. There are so many things you can solve by
dialoguing and through discussion.
” I will tour every state of Nigeria. In Anambra, I did a
tour of every local government once every three months and I slept in every
local government.
“If you know Anambra state very well, you will know how
chaotic and disorganised it was before I got there. For eight years, people
were wondering, what is happening here? If the leader is determined, he can do
a lot.
“People say Anambra state is not Nigeria. How do you measure
unhired people? You take their track records. I wasn’t a banker. I have never
worked in a bank but I’ve chaired a bank. I was just a trader in the market and
a MD of a bank said to me ‘Peter, everytime I come to market, what you say is
sensible. Can you come and be our Director? After being director for two years,
everybody in the Board said this man should be our chairman. And I took the
smallest bank in Nigeria to become a N25bn bank,” he said.
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