*It will be action, action, action
*Vows to bring insecurity to its knees, unemployment, lack of power
Aftwr a courtesy call to the Gbong Gwom Jos, Buba Gyang, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi assured of a reversal of what he termed the drift currently being experienced in the country.
Addressing a mammoth Party supporters in Jos, Plateau state, during a rally, Obi promised Nigerias equal opportunities in all sectors, improved power generation, practical war against insecurity and other forms of criminality, access to education and an end to endless unfulfilled promises.
Obi said he was worried that after ruling Nigeria for several years, all the previous political leaders were repeating were promises, promises, promises, without taking any practical step to fulfill those promises, and vowed not to engage in such rhetoric.
Asking the Nigerian electorates to go and verify his achievements as state governor in Anambra state, he said he not only brought unprecedented development to the state, but moved all indicies of development to the topmost level comparatively with other states, but most importantly, made savings for the state in billions of dollars, where his counterparts were accumulating debts.
He said there was no reason why Nigeria should be lacking power or be bereft of infrastructure, as it is now, and urged Nigerians not to allow those “who said we will start where they stopped to be elected”, as the current state of the nation is a sorry commentary.
Obi explained that with the vast arable land in the country particularly the northern parts of the country, he was wondering why there does not exist already several food processing companies to process the vast agricultural produce in the areas to finished produced for local consumption and for export.
He noted that if elected into office, Plateau state will not only host several potato chips processing companies, which will create jobs for the teeming unemployed youths, but other parts of the North will be dotted with several agro-processing industries.
On education, Obi said the worst thing bequeathed by the present administration was allowing the Nigerian undergraduates in public universities to remain at home for more than seven months, stressing that it is sin to God and man’s inhumanity to man.
He told the huge but enthusiastic crowd of supporters that he has a lieutenant and ally in Datti Baba-Ahmed who is a consumate educationist successfully running two private universities who will deploy his pedigree in that respect to ensure that nothing of such ever happens again in the country.
Recall that Obi as governor of Anambra State took the state from the bottom educationally to the topmost ranking in the country, adding that it is disheartening that our leaders could permit such despicable thing to occur in the history of this country, especially in the 21st century.
