2023: God Forbid We Fail with Labour’s Backing – Obi

Mr Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s presidential candidate, has stated that failure to win the 2023 presidential election with the support of labour unions will be disappointing and detrimental.

He stated that he is listening to and taking notice of what Nigerians want so that he does not have to make excuses when he takes office as president, as other elected people have done in the past.

“It will be one of the most disappointing and great damage to Nigeria’s existence if Labour goes through this effort and support somebody to lead this country and it fails, God forbid.

“So for me, I want to listen, I want to take note. That note is more important to me than anything, I don’t want to tell you people any idea, I want to listen to you, my job is to listen so that you don’t go out there giving them excuses.”

Obi, speaking at a party retreat in Abuja on Monday, said that while Nigerians are accustomed to hearing excuses from their elected leaders, he has decided to be different since the purpose of a leader is to solve problems, not to make excuses. He reiterates that his failure to win 2023 election will be disappointing.

“What we are used to in this country is for people to get into office and start saying what they saw when they got in there, I don’t want to see anything when I get in there, I want to hear it now so that I will know what to do when I get in there.

“The job of the leader is to solve problems and show solutions, not to give excuses. I don’t want to go there and people will start saying I’m blaming the people in the past. If they were doing good you won’t hire me.

“So I’m being hired to solve the problem not to remind them where they are coming from, I don’t want to remind Nigerians where they are coming from, I want to start solving the problem,” he said.

The former governor of Anambra State also berated the Nigerian government over the lingering strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, saying that it is shame that the government has failed to meet up with ASUU demands since 2009.

“ASUU is on strike for seven months, you might not know that the issue they are striking for is since 2009, it is not today and they have actually gone on so many strikes about this issue.

“From 2010 they have been striking about the same issue while I  was governor and if I could remember what they were demanding was about 1.3 trillion naira, you mean Nigeria could not pay that over the past 12 years?”

The two-day retreat, which began on Monday with talks from Obi, human rights lawyer Femi Falana, SAN, and others, continues on Tuesday in Abuja with additional luminaries scheduled to attend.

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