Obi told a joyous crowd of supporters in the commercial city of Onitsha that if elected president, he would not moan about the past but would act to solve the country's multifaceted problems due to leadership failure.
I took over from Governor Chris Ngige in Anambra state because I believe administration is a continuation. I never criticised my predecessor. My government was uncomplaining. Leaders solve, not complain. We won't complain. We will remind you of your future and provide you a fantastic future, not your past.
Since Anambra is an industrial state, he pledged to revive Onitsha as an African commercial centre. “Those times will return. I brought several industries as governor. I helped INNOSON motors and constructed industrial estate. I'll do it in Kaduna, Kano, Lagos, Kogi, and nationwide when I'm president.
Borno will be a fishing centre again. Nigeria will be productive everywhere. We will never be hungry again since Nigeria has farm land in the North. All Northern farmland will be cultivated. I will develop industries in the East and reopen Port Harcout and Warri ports. I will build a three-hour road from Anambra to Abuja.
If elected, he would help INNOSON Motors and other local automakers export. We will be better than other countries, so young Nigerians who have left will return. "I have told them to allow us into power so that it can start reversing," he said. We will export enough to stabilise the Naira.”
The LP candidate promised to solve national insecurity, especially in the South East. “We will negotiate, talk, beg, cajole people. We'll beg, but if they don't listen, we'll say we're in government. Peace will come.” Obi added that if he becomes president, he will release the potential of all Nigerians and be honoured nationwide. I will tackle northern poverty as president. I'll fight my northern school. I will clean the zone and bring life to South-South if I am president. I'll make Lagos Africa's financial centre if I'm president. If I'm president, the South-East will applaud me because I'll make it Africa's business centre.” At the gathering, Labour Party Vice Presidential Candidate Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmad claimed the country is ready for power to come to the South-East and wondered if anyone from the region is not.
“Nigeria is ready for South-East, the North is ready for you and let me see any South-Easterner who doesn't want power to come to your zone.”
"In 2019, Peter Obi and his likes, all serious politicians from the South, even with their money, resources and experience decided not to contest the presidential election because they reasoned it was the turn of the North," Datti said, explaining why the power rotation should belong to the South-East. In 2023, don't pull it with the South-East.
Comrade Julius Abure, Labour Party National Chairman, advised Anambra people that "any opportunity that is wasted can never come back." Anambra people must seize this Nigerian opportunity.
"If there is anyone who can declare that it is his turn, it should be Peter Obi because every other zone has experienced power except South-East," he said of the Nigerian presidency. Obi and his team met with state political leaders, students, youth, traditional rulers, and women groups before the gathering.
(Source:championnews.com.ng)
