As Nigeria marks her 62nd Independence anniversary, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi says many Nigerians have turn out to be worn-out and annoyed with the management failure that has persevered to burden the country. He stated that the 2023 familiar election affords a ray of hope to the human beings for a new Nigeria, if matters had been completed correctly.
In his Independence Day message to the people, Obi regretted that at 62, Nigeria has little or nothing to celebrate. Rather, he added, the country has endured to conflict underneath the weight of corruption, terrible governance, insecurity, worsening economy, abuse of workplace and all manner of ills.
He lamented that alternatively of heralding development and development, the human beings had been weakened by way of poverty and hassle and similarly harassed with the aid of new types of societal malady.
He said: “After sixty two years of independence, we are nonetheless experiencing steady crumple of our country wide grid, as many as seven instances in a single year; our universities have been shut for eight months; our inflation fee is at an all time high, as extra than half of of the populace is combating severe poverty; insecurity and violence are taking place at an alarming rate; oil theft is carried on with impunity and in all fronts the country bleeds.
“Any similarly slip into retrogression will make the state uninhabitable for the humans and that is why many Nigerians are searching ahead to the 2023 election due to the fact it offers them an possibility to put an quit to the management screw ups of the previous and usher in a new and productive Nigeria.
“The time has come for Nigerians to rescue their Country from the clutches of failure, rascality and corruption that have held it down for long.
“That is the actual independence Nigeria needs. We want independence from monetary brigandage, tribal and spiritual disunity, poverty and unproductivity, bad high-quality training etc.
“The coming election in 2023 must be strictly primarily based on competence, personality and integrity for us to make growth in the country”.
Obi cited his readiness to cross the country forward, if elected, stressing, “I stand via my get to the bottom of to cross the country forward, from consumption to production, from sharing formulation to manufacturing formula.
“With this, we can construct the New Nigeria of our dreams. Let us take lower back our kingdom and construct a higher society for ourselves and our children.”
In his very own anniversary message, the former countrywide chairman of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) and the Labour Party Senatorial Candidate for Anambra Central Senatorial District, in the 2023 regularly occurring election, Senator Victor Umeh known as on Nigerians, irrespective of tribe, ethnic and spiritual affiliation to vote Peter Obi, to stop insecurity and untold monetary trouble in the country.
According Umeh, “at this time in the records of our extremely good country, there is a conventional consensus that the state is no longer in a true shape.
“After sixty two years of Independence, we ought to have been in a position to arrange ourselves for the betterment of the country, however we are in confusion.
“The 2023 normal election is the proper time Nigerians have the hazard to pick out leaders by means of themselves. They must vote for a accurate president in 2023 and I am free to say that Mr. Peter Obi and his jogging mate, Mr. Yusuf Datti Ahmed continue to be the fantastic pair to tackle all the untold challenges dealing with Nigerians at the moment.
“The Obi/Datti ticket would grant Nigerians a visionary management platform that would right the unwell of terrible management we have had in the previous sixty two years.
Some leaders have tried and some failed. We did now not want to gamble in 2023 election. We want to put the proper humans on seat of power. Let us put Peter Obi on the seat as the subsequent president and all Labour Party candidates that will guide him.”
