The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has described himself and his running mate, Ahmed Datti, as the “best combination” for Nigeria.
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| Labour Party (LP) Presidential candidate, Peter Obi, during an interactive session with North East stakeholders in Abuja. Photo: @PeterObi |
Obi also said, his plan is to make “Nigerians proud of their country” once again, and that the major cause of “insecurity, banditry and kidnapping” is as a result of the high rate of unemployment among the youth of the country, which he said, is “nearing 50 percent”.
On the issue of insecurity in the North-East, Obi believes if the huge number of youths in the region are employed, there will be a significant improvement in security in the region. Insecurity in the North East will be a forgotten matter once the youth are engaged in legal activities.
The former Anambra State Governor went ahead to reveal more of his intentions alongside his running mate, Ahmed Datti, to Nigerians, saying “we want to unite Nigeria, remove Nigeria from consumption to production”, as well as “start pulling people out of poverty”.
Obi said, during an interactive session with the North East stakeholders in Abuja: “Youth unemployment is nearing 50 per cent, so you have millions of youth in their productive age doing nothing, not knowing where the next meal will come from. With that situation, you are going to have crises; crisis of insecurity, crisis of banditry, crisis of kidnapping.
“What I and Datti (Baba-Ahmed) are promising you is number one; that we have the best combination, the best experience to start tackling issue of security and I will say this, hold us responsible. Let nobody tell you we cannot solve issue of insecurity in Nigeria, it can be stopped and done very quickly.
“We want to unite Nigeria, we want to see Nigerians being proud of their country again. We want to remove Nigeria from where it is today, from consumption to production and when you do that, you start pulling people out of poverty.”
