2023: Obi urges Nigerians to reject candidates that can only speak by proxy

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi, has asked the electorate to reject presidential candidates who cannot address them directly but through proxies.

A press statement by his media adviser Valentine Obienyem said Obi spoke in Germany as he addressed the people that welcomed him on Saturday as he began a tour to address the world audience and explain the programmes he intends to execute when elected President of Nigeria.

He said that every candidate must come and tell Nigerians his agenda to make Nigeria work.

Obi also asked electorates to do background checks on all presidential candidates before listening to whatever promises they make

He said: “When you listen to us, go and check our background. This is not a time for somebody to show us his qualifications. I live in Nigeria and I know Nigeria and what Nigerians need. I am not a stranger to Nigerian problems.

“I am a trader but I have the privilege to go to some of the best of schools like Oxford, Cambridge, and other Ivy league institutions, but I always say to people that educational qualification is not the same as integrity.

“Listen to all the presidential candidates, not through proxy. Let anyone who wants to be your President come forward himself and speak to you directly, because he is the one you will hold responsible for whatever happens to Nigeria under his care.

” This campaign is not a campaign you are going to speak through somebody, that person needs to come and directly tell us what he is going to do for our country and we must take note of whatever he says and hold him by his words.”

“We also don’t want somebody that would be carried to this place in a wheelchair but must consider his capacity, competence, integrity and commitment.

Obi said we must go around in Nigeria for the good of our country.

He added: “Somebody asked me a question about going to look for foreign investors, I said Nigerians outside are going to do what China and India did.

“It is good for us to go back and fix our place, we need to secure it and our place needs to have proper leadership that is visionary, nothing is happening in other countries that are rocket science, a country is measured by its productive capacity.

“Somebody asked me what are we going to do to stabilize the naira? I said it is very simple; production, because the more you produce goods and export the more your currency becomes stronger. If you are looking for dollars and Euros, just go and sell something to somebody that has Euros and dollars and your currency will become strong.
We will ensure the security of lives and bring stability to governance.

“Our human capital today is low; we have 200 million people with barely ten per cent production capacity. You also need to reduce the cost of governance and have zero tolerance for corruption. People cannot continue to do what they are doing with government resources.”

Obi promised to provide the opportunity for Diaspora Nigerians to vote in the 2027 elections if elected president next year.

He also assured that Africa will remain the centrepiece of Nigeria’s foreign policy as it will improve the diplomatic sphere of influence via peacekeeping, trade, and investment initiatives.

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