The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has called on Nigerians to dwell on the significance of the date January 15th in the life of the nation and strive towards building a secured and united country with sustainable development.
Obi, in a broadcast on Sunday morning shortly before travelling to the United Kingdom for his Chatham House engagement slated for Monday said given the state of the nation where insecurity, poverty, unemployment, inflation and other challenges are high, Nigerians must commit to a nation with the ‘no Victor no vanquished’ spirit that characterised the end of the civil war on January 15 1970.
Obi said with 40 days before the 2023 presidential election, the sense of oneness and unity that produced the Shagari/Ekwueme presidential ticket during the 1979 elections, less than ten years after the end of the war, is what Nigerians should follow to promote more inclusiveness.
Obi will on Monday speak to a global audience at the Chatham House in London about his ambition of being Nigeria’s next president. The former Governor of Anambra State will also take to the podium to speak on his motivation, determination as well as unveil his policy programmes and agenda for Nigeria and how he intends to actualize them especially in the areas of addressing the county’s security and economic challenges.
Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council’s spokesperson, Yunusa Tanko in a statement, said Obi will make Nigeria very attractive for citizens to live, work and earn meaningfully in their own country, promising that with him in charge the current exodus in search for greener pasture known in local parlance as “Japa” will come to an end.
He said Obi has already promised to stop fuel subsidy which he regards as “organised crime” if elected Nigeria’s president.
He will use the auspicious occasion of the global engagement to shed more light on how he intends to move the country from a consumptive nation to a productive one, Tanko said.
