Cajetan Mmuta, Awka
Candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, and members of the Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) yesterday met with traditional rulers, as well as youth and women groups, at separate town hall meetings in Awka, the Anambra State capital, with a plea for them and all citizens across the nation to support the party’s desire, mission and project for a possible new Nigeria.

This is as the train of the party’s national campaign council of the Peter Obi/Ahmed Datti 2023 presidency mega rally berthed at the All Saints Cathedral field in the commercial town of Onitsha, where a mammoth crowd of supporters converged in solidarity ahead of the February 25th election.

Addressing the monarchs drawn from the over 177 communities, students, and youth groups who gathered at the Government House, Awka, and Stanel Event Center, assured them that a new Nigeria is possible but requires the joint resolve of all to rescue her from the hard grip of marauders who held her economy by the jugular.

He noted insecurity, mismanagement of country’s oil resources earnings, poor educational funding and soaring unemployment rate as major challenges out to knee the nation even in the face of its over 200 population as a which citizens rely on consumption rather than production

Mr. Peter Obi who is also the former Governor of Anambra’ state pledged that if elected President of Nigeria he would lift the nation from the ruins of bad leaders and debris of poverty through guaranteed boost in agriculture, adequate security of every citizen irrespective of tribe and religion; improved education system and effective management of the country’s wealth.

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Obi also blasted political opponents, saying that the Presidency of Nigeria is not a retirement loan for anybody.

According to him, I owe no one any apologies for being stingy, stressing that he and his running mate Senator Ahmed Datti remain the youngest, most credible and qualified to be President and Vice President among the four major contending candidates jostling for the number one seat in Aso Rock .

Recall that the duo of Atiku Abubakar of the People’s Democratic Party PDP and Sen Ahmed Bola Tinubu had described him as a stingy person which according to them is not what the country needs.

He said, “This is not about turn by turn but about capacity and if it is about turn, people like us would insist that it is our turn and should be considered”
The LP Presidential candidate explained that “The job of a President is not a retirement loan or for any kind of settlement but about uniting and rebuilding the country “

“They said that I am a stingy man and I say they didn’t say that I am extravagant or that I embezzled public funds only that I am stingy and I tell you the job and the Presidency of our country needs a stingy person,” he said.

Continuing Obi said that; “When you look at me and my Running mate you would discover that we are young compared with the other candidates who are older and our National Chairman is in his fifties but the National chairman of the other candidates are about seventy or over that “

“When you talk about qualification , I am the most qualified and the youngest among them and this is not a job for rehabilitation of people because Nigeria needs a strong and vibrant person as President and one that is in tune with the trending and modern style of leadership so that our country would be counted among the committee of great Nations in the world “ he said.

While fielding questions from students during the Town Hall meeting held at Stanel Event Center Awka with the youth groups, Obi pointed out that the issue of industrial action or strike by University lecturers would be tackled under his administration.

He stated  that the revenue from Petroleum which people are sharing is about the sum the lecturers are demanding for.

“Why would our Universities be on strike ? There is no justification for that because people are interested in stealing and sharing oil money and they are not producing anything and come to think of it , the money that they are stealing is about the amount that can be used to fix our Universities and educational system”

Obi stressed that his running mate Sen Yusuf Datti has two internationally recognized universities that are functional adding that if a private university can be functional and well funded there is no reason whatsoever for the universities owned by the country not to be functional.

In his brief remarks, Igwe Sunday Okafor of Okpuno community commended the LP Presidential candidate for his elaborate speech on the myriads of problems confro tonh the polity and proffered solutions if elected into office.

He decried that those who had been President of the country prefer going for treatment abroad, adding that the cost of medical trip abroad has been a drain on the funds of the country positing that Nigerians do not need such kind of President.

The monarch prayed to God to choose who would be the next President of the country.

He also expressed the wishes of the traditional rulers that God would choose Obi come February 25th general election.