From Victor Nwegede, Abakaliki
The Presidential candidate of the Labour Party(LP), Peter Obi has expressed his readiness to liberate Nigeria from backwardness, noting that his victory on February 25 presidential poll would end insecurity, poverty, unemployment and other unfortunate conditions dragging the nation backwards.
Obi made this declaration on Friday at Nkwegu Ugbala Grand Arena, Abakaliki during his town hall meeting with the Nigerian students in Ebonyi State.
The LP presidential candidate who was overwhelmed by the mammoth crowd that welcomed him during the event assured the students of the possibility of a new Nigeria in 2023.
He said in the past 20 years, Nigeria has been breeding insecurity, poverty, suffering, unemployment, electric grinding, ASUU strike, scarcity of potable water and countless drawbacks.
He assured that his administration if elected as Nigeria's President in 2023, would ensure that the country becomes a secured nation, promised massive employment for the youth and women, and to fight poverty by removing the country from consumption to production.
Obi, the former Governor of the Anambra State, also promised to end the ASUU strike and to make sure that all the graduates have a better livelihood under his watch. He vowed to uplift the infrastructural status of Ebonyi State better than the way he met it today.
While commending the efforts of the Ebonyi LP stakeholders towards the actualization of a new Nigeria under the platform of the party, Obi described the state governorship candidate of the party, Architect Edward Nkwegu (Edon) as a very wonderful figure.
He charged the students and other citizens of the state to massively vote for the Labour Party in the forthcoming 2023 general elections at their various polling units, and insisted that "a new Nigeria is possible to make everybody happy regardless of tribe, religion, colour or statue."
Obi pledged to be accountable and asked Nigerians to hold him responsible for all his promises should he fails to keep them, as he vowed to end corruption in the country.
He with his entourage later proceeded to Pa Oruta Ngele Stadium Abakaliki, the venue for the presidential rally, where he expressed confidence that the Labour Party would win in Ebonyi in the forthcoming elections following the millions of people drumming support for the Obidient movement in the state.
