Labour Party(LP) Presidential candidate for the 2023 elections, Peter Obi, has assured Nigerians that he and his running mate, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed want to save Nigeria, adding that they cannot do so by stealing.
He made the charge while at the Palace of the Benin Monarch, His Royal Majesty, Omo N’Oba N’Edo, Uku Akpolokpolo, Oba Ewuare 11, where he led his campaign team to.
In his opening remarks the Presidential flagbearer, who is a former Governor of Anambra State, stated that Nigeria cannot continue with insecurity and other ills plaguing its development.
According to the Presidential hopeful the 2023 general election is not about religion and neither is it about tribe.
“Next year election should not be based on tribe or religion. Nobody should bring religion here. I don’t want anybody to vote for me because I am an Igbo man or from the South East.
“If you talk of corruption go to the state I once governed (Anambra) and ask them. I was not owing salaries, pensions etc. Politics is not a job but a vocation.”
Going further, he promised the monarch that “in our government we will make sure that dignified fathers like you are well placed. We want a responsive government.”
Responding to an enquiry by the monarch that he learnt credibly that while he was the Governor of Anambra State he rejected a land gift he was bestowed with basing his action on the argument that he was elected in the state to serve.
“There are a whole lot of temptations in the office of President of Nigeria. Are you saying that you will do your best to resist them?” The Monarch asked.
The Peter Obi/Yusuf Ahmed Baba-Datti Campaign team’s arrival at and departure from the magnificent Benin Palace took several minutes as the mammoth group of ecstatic supporters of the duo held them at the gate while singing the LP’s victory song.
