The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has declared that Nigeria’s money is safer in the hand of a stingy man who will invest it in education, health, and other needs of the people.

Addressing a crowd of supporters in Asaba, the Delta State capital on Monday, Obi said: “I know you heard when they said Peter is stingy. I agree, Nigerians don’t want people who will steal their money again. We want to use our money for our people.

“This election is about character and people we can trust. Everybody knows the schools I attended. When I was the governor of Anambra State everybody knows what I did, all the work I did. When I left government, everybody knows where I live; go and verify.”

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Obi further stated that the time has come to retire old politicians in the country and take back Nigeria for the future, saying: “If you put my age and Datti (running mate) age and divide it into two, we are in our fifties. The other people if you put their own they are in their seventies. You know that there is a retirement age. PDP chairman is 70 years, APC chairman is 70 years. Labour Party chairman is 52 years old. So it is our turn. We will retire them, we will pay them compensation.”

The former governor of Anambra State reiterated that his government will be for Nigerian youths and women if elected as president in the 2023 presidential election.

“I told you our average age, not these other people we don’t know their age. We don’t know where they were born, we don’t know which school they attended,” Obi added.

The LP presidential flag-bearer promised to reactivate and make Warri Port work again, and complete the East-West road which he said the government has been building for 24 years.

On his part, the Labour Party’s vice presidential candidate, Datti Baba-Ahmed, said: “Do you know how to know who these losers are, they have made promises for 24 years, the other half made promises for 16 years, the other made promises for 8 years, and they all failed.

“They cannot face Peter Obi and me and talk about security; they will hide behind and talk about structure. The structure that they used to destroy Nigeria and keep us where we are today.”

Also speaking at the rally, the LP National Chairman, Comrade Julius Abure, said Nigeria “is in comatose state, in trouble and nothing is working”.

“This is the only opportunity we have to change the narrative of this country.

“It is not because Peter Obi is running in Labour Party. If I was in PDP and Peter Obi is running in Labour Party, I would have supported him. I am saying so because he has what it takes to change the country,” Abure added.

The Star