The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi has admonished Nigerian electorate to consider competence and capacity when casting their votes in February’s general elections.
Obi, who gave the admonition on Saturday in Osogbo at the Labour Party presidential campaign rally in company of his running mate, Datti Baba Ahmed, implored electorate to shun ethnicity and religion as they go to poll.
While urging the electorates in the State to vote out political parties who claimed to have structures, he added that political parties and their structures have hindered Nigeria structure.
In his words, “All these challenges are caused by those who say they have party structures. But these structures have crippled Nigeria. I want me and you to destroy these structures by voting them out next month.”
He revealed that he has plans to secure Nigeria and transform the country from a consumer to producer nation.
“We will change Nigeria from a consuming country to a producing country. These people kept on bragging that they have structures. Yet, they are not doing anything. They are not producing anything in this State, youths are unemployed, we will change these challenges.
“We are going to secure and unite Nigeria. We want a Nigerian to be proud of being a Nigerian. We will deliver a secured Nigeria. We don’t want Nigerians to be in the IDP camp, we don’t want you to be a slave in your own country,” he said.
Obi added that youth unemployment, poverty and hunger were major challenges that needed to be confronted.
“Nigerians are hungry, youths have no job. It is not safe to travel anywhere in Nigeria today,” he lamented.
He disclosed that when he becomes president, he will govern Nigeria with the fear of God and make job creation and youth employment a major priority of his administration.