
APC, PDP Are Part Of Nigeria’s Problem, I Don’t See Them As The Solution – Obi
The presidential candidate of Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, says the troubles bedeviling the country may want to flip the electorates in opposition to the ruling All Progressives Congress, (APC) and competition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Obi said this in an interview with Reuters even as noting that he sees the events as a part of the problem, for this reason why he does now no longer trust that they may be a part of the solution.
According to the previous Governor of Anambra state, he intends to harness Nigerians’ anger with the fame quo to power the ‘Obidient’ motion and clinch victory on the presidential polls.
He stated; ”I consider that the 2 events are a part of the problem, I don’t see them being a part of the solution. The gadget they’ve operated over the years, it has introduced us to wherein we’re.”
Obi expressed self assurance that electorate whose country “at the brink” might upward push above religious, ethnic and tribal loyalties which have the 2 most important events to dominate elections.
“What is critical is that humans trust. It is simple, you could now no longer like me, however what I’m coming right here to do can be different,” he added.
He additionally said that he now no longer terrified of stepping on feet of effective people who may also pose a stumbling block to his plans to convert Nigeria.
Obi has in advance lambast the APC and PDP, pronouncing the best political shape each events have is ‘belly infrastructure’.
Speaking on the Labour Party Coalition for Peter Obi (CPO) Summit on the International Conference Centre, Abuja, on Thursday, he stated that belly infrastructure has added extra trouble for hundreds of thousands of Nigerians withinside the remaining decades.
Obi additionally reiterated that his shape is the a hundred million negative Nigerians who will troop out enmasse on election day to stable their destiny thru their votes.
He stated; “The contemporary systems of each the PDP and the APC are the belly infrastructure that has delivered us not anything however misery. Their know-how of shape is sharing of Nigeria’s patrimony to vested pastimes and impact peddlers. That is towards what Peter Obi represents; this is in opposition to what Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed represents; and it’s miles certainly, in opposition to the imaginative and prescient of the Labour Party.”
“It is the 33% unemployed Nigerians who already recognize who saved them unemployed; our shape is certainly the mother and father of 18.5m out-of-school-youngsters in Nigeria, who will try to make certain that such discomfort does now no longer go to them a 2d time. Our shape is all of us seated on this corridor today! Yes, we’ve got Structure. And we’re prepared to transport mountains to store Nigeria.
”Since I entered the presidential race my mantra has been regular and in tandem with the Labour Party’s imaginative and prescient, which especially seeks to make sure monetary transformation via job-led growth.
“Therefore, my selection to sign up for the Labour Party turned into now no longer through twist of fate or happenstance; it turned into certainly a thought-thru choice given the ideological convergence. Great countries are constructed thru political alliances. Our founding fathers understood and solid alliances withinside the countrywide interest. But matters changed. Our leaders have become selfish, myopic and corrupt. And our human beings suffered. That narrative and attitude should change.
“The new alliance we are looking for is among Nigerian Youths, the Labour Party, which constitute Nigerian workers, and Like Minds. Collectively, it’s miles an alliance of the OBIdients!”