BY BENEDICT NWACHUKWU, ABUJA
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi has promised to return power back to the citizens in 2023 adding that Nigerians would no longer allow “drivers that don’t know where we are going” to lead the country.
The former Anambra State Governor who spoke at the Labour Party and Coalition for Peter Obi leadership summit in Abuja on Thursday lamented that bad leadership has led to nobody knowing where the country is heading.
He further stated that his job in 2023 is to wrest power from those who hold it presently and return it back to the people and added that his administration would provide leadership which he said had been lacking.
He 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 have hope in Nigeria and the only way they will have faith in Nigeria is that there is hope in Nigerians.
“The only thing that is lacking in this country is leadership. And that is what we intend to provide. We are not trying to do something else. Leadership is what Datti and I want to provide. We are not looking for anything.
“In 2023, we will no longer allow drivers that don’t know where we are going. We will remove that driver. We will not allow him to continue. We will put another driver to continue because what we have now, and what is happening in Nigeria is that you don’t know where you are going, the driver doesn’t know where the vehicle is going, so every road leads us there.
“But we don’t want to worry. All we say is that 2023 onwards, we will no longer allow that situation. For now, we will manage it to the end.”
The LP Presidential candidate also pledged to return the country to production saying, “All we want to do is to move this country from consumption to production.”
Speaking earlier, Vice Presidential candidate of the party, Datti Baba-Ahmed called for calm ahead of the election.
He called on election riggers to “sheath their sword” and allow the voice of the people to prevail.
The former lawmaker said: “We do not take anything from anybody for a campaign. We are not looking for money from the 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 uniformed staff of the Federal Government of Nigeria, in broad daylight collects money. Each time I see it, my heart breaks. That similar act is as bad as a $20 billion scandal and it happens every day. We are going to end it. We are going to change it.”
National Chairman of the Labour Party, Julius Abure, boasted that the party will win the 2023 presidential election saying that the party was on a mission to rescue Nigeria.
Abure further said the country was tilting towards collapse as a result of insecurity and a failing economy.
Speaking also, the Director-General of Obi/Datti Campaign Organisation, 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 LP.
Going spiritual, Okupe said if those who claim to have money and structure win the forthcoming election, they will give the glory to money but when the Labour Party wins, they will give the glory to God knowing that their hope is only in God.
