The Labour Party candidate in the 2023 election, Peter Obi, has decried the alarming rate of security challenges in the country. He regretted that despite the fact that Nigerians were not at war, insecurity has turned many citizens to refugees.
Obi spoke on Tuesday in Abuja during the presentation of the book titled, “Obi, the Political Change Agent”.
He said that Nigerians must rise and change the current political system.
The former Anambra state governor highlighted the sufferings faced by Nigerians, as he listed issues troubling the country to include insecurity, poverty, theft, lack of accountability by public officials, among others.
He urged collective efforts to dismantle the proceeds of ill gotten wealth, insisting that “any country where those in government were richer than business people is an unproductive country. A very simple definition of production is value.”
He said the current system is totally unproductive, adding that the country has raised “Nigerian masters” who have destroyed rail lines and other infrastructures built by the colonial masters.
Obi further stated that to rebuild the country, Nigerians must make sacrifices even as he said the Obidient movement would look for genuine people who are willing to fix the country at all levels.
His remarks might not be unconnected to the activities of some federal lawmakers originally elected on the Labour Party platform but who have been criticised for allegedly abandoning their core opposition functions.
Meanwhile, the 2023 LP flag bearer while calling for transparency in the upcoming 2027 poll cautioned against attempts to truncate the process.
He said, “we will make the election count. And those who don’t want it to count, we’ll Count them.”