*Adds ‘Nigeria is in a comatose’
Former Governor of Anambra and presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has said that 2023 election won’t be based on ethnic or religious sentiment but rather on a “Nigerian agenda”.
He also said Nigeria is currently in a comatose state and needs a specialist like him to save its life.
Speaking on Arise Television’s ‘The Morning Show’, where he addressed questions surrounding the seeming deadlock between his party and the New Nigeria Peoples Party among other key issues, the youth-friendly candidate blamed the current economic quagmire on bad leadership, while calling on Nigerians to vote wisely come 2023.
“What we have chosen to do in this country is that we consistently hire vehicle drivers to fly the Nigerian airplane, instead of qualified pilots.
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“My commitment is, let us campaign and deal with issues on the problems with the country. There are a lot of problems besieging this country.
“If you don’t know today, this country will soon default in their debt servicing.
“This is what should be preoccupying us now. Universities have shut down and we are talking about who we’ll vote for. Let’s deal with the issues.
“This election will not be based on ‘my turn’. It will not be based on ethnicity. It will not be based on religion. It will be based on a Nigerian agenda to save this Nigeria.
“Nigeria is in coma, and it needs a specialist, and that is what I’m offering to save its life or it will die. I’m appealing to people to vote to save Nigeria, and to save Nigeria is to hire the best,” Obi opined.
Earlier, the Director-General of the Obi Presidential Campaign Organisation, Dr Doyin Okupe, announced that the planned alliance between the Labour Party and the New Nigeria People’s Party for the 2023 general election is “dead.”
This is coming on the heels of calls by eminent members and supporters of the two political parties to allow a merger to be able to unseat the APC-led government in 2023.