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2023: Presidency Is Not Turn By Turn – Peter Obi

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The Presidential candidate of Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi, has said next year’s Presidential election is not based on ethnicity or religion, hence it is nobody’s turn. Speaking at the Labour Party Leadership Retreat in Abuja on Monday, Mr. Obi promised to sign a performance agreement with the Nigerian Labour Congress to make sure that ideas generated at the retreat are followed to the letter. Apparently referring to Bola Tinubu, the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Obi stressed that since there was no place where Christians or Muslims buy things cheaper or Yoruba or Hausa’s have free light than others in the country, then the coming election is about character and competence and not any body’s turn. In June, Tinubu spoke about how he was instrumental in the election of President Muhammadu Buhari, and why he deserves to be his successor.


Some of the phrases used during his charged speech were “Èmi Lọ Kàn” – meaning, “I’m the next”.

Obi further stated that “We will do this retreat now, after election we will do another one, election next year will not be based on ethnicity, we have had it before, it would not be on religion.”

“There is no place that Christians buy things cheaper, there is no place that Muslims buy things cheaper. It will not be by my turn, it is nobody’s turn. It must not be by connection. Election next year must be based on character and trust, it must be based on competence.”

The Presidential candidate in addition stated that corruption is pervasive in Nigeria because leaders are involved, “If a leader is not stealing, and the family around him are not stealing we will reduce corruption by 70 percent. I was Governor for eight years, there is nowhere money is missing.

“I am in this retreat to listen, let us put it in writing when we succeed, you must be around to say this is what we have agreed on. Even if we don’t achieve 100 percent, we must have made sacrifices.”

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