The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr Peter Obi on Thursday faulted the political leadership, which he said was responsible for the nation’s woes.
Obi believed that the nation found itself in a messy situation because “drivers of the country don’t know where we are going” in leading the country.
Disclosing his mission in 2023 presidential race on the platform of the Labour Party, he vowed to return power to the people, and provide a responsible leadership, if he wins.
Obi, who formerly governed Anambra State spoke at the Labour Party and Coalition for Peter Obi leadership summit in Abuja on Thursday.
Speaking at a well attended event by different Coalition groups, Obi insisted on wrestling power from those who hold it presently and return it back to the people.
Obi said: “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 to have hope in Nigeria and the only way they will have faith in Nigeria is that there is hope in Nigerians.
According to him, that what was lacking in the nation is leadership, stating was not contesting with Senator Datti Baba-Ahmed to sample leadership, but to provide responsible leadership to Nigerians.
He likened the present leadership to a ‘driver that don’t know where he is going’, hence, there was need for removal of the leadership through voting in 2023, so that Nigerians would not be further led astray.
He urged Nigerians to endure, noting that the present leadership has few months to go.
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.”
The National Chairman of theParty, Julius Abure boasted that the party will win the 2023 presidential election.
Abure, who is a former trade union leader, said the party was on a mission to rescue Nigeria.
He said the country was tilting towards collapse as a result of insecurity and a failing economy.
Director – General of Obi/Datti Campaign Organisation, Dr Doyin Okupe warned that Nigerians would suffer if the country continued on the same path.
He said the party would mobilise to ensure that everyone at the polling stations voted for the Labour Party.
Vice Presidential Candidate of the party, Datti Baba-Ahmed called for calm ahead of the election.
He cautioned election riggers to “sheath their sword” and allow the voice of the people to prevail.
Baba-Ahmed said: “We do not take anything from anybody for campaign. We are not looking for money in government. We are looking for how to manage government money by following a serious leader who knows how to create money.
“I am following a leader who has nothing to achieve again in this life except to see a peaceful and prosperous nation.
“It pains me when a uniform staff of a federal government of Nigeria, in broad daylight will collect money. Each time I see it, my heart breaks. That similar act is a bad a $20 billion scandal and it happens everyday. We are going to end it. We are going to change it.”
