Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s (LP) presidential candidate, has pledged to demolish the “structure” that is holding Nigeria hostage and impeding her advancement and progressive development.
The Labour Party’s presidential candidate claimed that the current “structure” in Nigeria is one of criminality, which has driven the people into poverty.
WITHIN NIGERIA reports that Obi made this statement on Monday at Chatham House, a leading policy institute and think-tank forum in the United Kingdom.
Obi, a former governor of Anambra State, stated during a discussion on ‘Nigeria’s 2023 elections: A vision for policy change and institutional reforms,’ that it is frequently heard that the Labour Party lacks structure.
He said;
You have heard them say we don’t have structure; that is the structure we are trying to destroy – structure of criminality that Nigeria is being held captive; that structure is the structure that has impoverished Nigeria. We’ll dismantle it. It will not be there. I assure of you.
According to him;
Nigeria is faced with “alarming” insecurity that has led to the loss of many lives and property, a significant decline in food and economic output, immense mental trauma, and in some cases contributed to disaffection with the “Nigerian project.”
The economy is in crisis with a troubling debt profile worsened by oil theft of proportions once hard to imagine.
Two economic recessions in six years and lamentable power sector have significantly constrained manufacturing and social life.
The Nigerian state is captive to an elite gang-up and a rental political economy that concentrate power in the hands of those who came to power and influence mainly through their own contrivances and influence, rather than the affirmation of the people and therefore do not have the incentive to serve the people.
Even after exploiting the ethnic and religious cleavages, sentiments to ascend to political power, the very people on whose sentiments they grab power often become the primary victims of such political fraud that has rendered Nigeria a failing state with worsening leadership crisis.