LP Presidential Candidate Tells Youths To Make good Impact in 2023 Election

The Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party in Nigeria Mr Peter Obi, says the 2023 general election is about youths and they should seize the opportunity to make a positive impact in the country.

Mr. Obi said this at a Town hall meeting where he was engaged with students at the University of Abuja, Nigeria’s capital under the auspices of the University’s Leadership Centre.

The Presidential candidate presented some projections of where Nigeria was and where it would be if voted in as President, next Month.

He assured the academy community that “education would not suffer under his watch and there would be no industrial action.”

He said that “all the problems of the country, economic, education, health, politics and so on, revolved around political will and leadership that had failed the country over the years and the refusal to do the right thing at the right time had been responsible for the challenges in the country.”

He said; “the next election is about you, the youths and you must seize the opportunity to take back the country by insisting that character, competence and antecedents guide your decision, not religion, tribe and region or my turn because in truth it is the turn of the teeming Nigerian youths.”

“The reason my manifesto is centred on turning the country from consumption to production is to stop the country from recycling poverty.

“The only thing this country is manufacturing is poverty, and Datti and I are coming to change all that because no country grows by consumption, without production.

“Poverty is increasing in Nigeria because we are not investing enough in education and health which is what makes the difference between a rich and a poor country.

“I am assuring you that all that will stop under my watch,” Mr Obi said.

According to him, life expectancy globally should be about 72 years but it is 55 years in Nigeria because of the growing level of poverty in the country that is so blessed.

“This country should not be poor given its abundant natural and human resources ,” he said.

Mr Obi said that with his running mate Datti, they would halt the drift and position the country as the giant of Africa as professed by all.

He said that securing the country remained their number one priority because nothing, no matter how laudable, could be achieved without a secured environment.

The candidate said that his administration would negotiate with agitators and deal with those who might be recalcitrant and uncooperative because there could only be one government in a country at a time.

Mr. Obi said that if given the opportunity, he would “remove fuel subsidy the first day in office because it has been turned into a huge racket of corruption.”

The Vice Chancellor of the University, Prof. Abdul-Rasheed Na’Allah, commended Mr Obi for visiting the school to inspire students.

Professor Na’Allah said that the aim of the town hall meeting was to discuss issues around politics, stressing that “intellectual engagement is the basis of political leadership.”

He said that “there was need to scrutinise those aspiring to govern the nation and they should be made to answer questions.”

Mercy Chukwudiebere