The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has described Nigeria as “a failed state”, saying he and his running mate, Datti Baba-Ahmed, are in the presidential race to rescue and turn the country around.

Obi said this at the party’s presidential rally in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital on Thursday.

“Datti Ahmed and I are not in this business for anything, we are committed to building, a new Nigeria that is possible. Hold us responsible, we are prepared for the job.

“Somebody asked me today, with all these monies they have stolen how would you transform Nigeria, and I said, I have turned around failed businesses; Nigeria is a failed country, give it to us we will turn it around. We want Nigerians to hold us responsible for turning around this country.

“I am not looking for anything. I have been a governor for 8 years. I didn’t owe salary or gratuity or pension, but I left 150 million dollars and 30 billion naira. Go to Anambra State, if you see one piece of land allocated to Peter Obi, the wife, or anybody close to me, I will stop running,” the LP presidential flag-bearer said.

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Obi stated that the 2023 presidential election should not be tribe or religion but on the character Nigerians can trust and a candidate who has capacity and competence to lead the country.

The former governor of Anambra State said his desire “ is to build a society where people will be secured, where a child of nobody will be able to be president of this country.”

“It is time to change this country; we must vote for someone with competence, someone with capacity and capability. This job is a job for people with physical and mental energy, not retirement home,” Obi stressed.

Also speaking at the rally, the LP National Chairman, Julius Abure, said the 2023 presidential election offers Nigerians the opportunity and time “to recover our country from those who have put us in poverty, in hunger and unemployment. Therefore, the choice we must make in 2023 is Labour Party and Peter Obi.”

Abure said the reason Nigerians have been suffering is because the citizens have been voting for the wrong people.

“It is now time for us to vote the right people who will recover this country again,” the LP chairman stated.

The Star