The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has said that he and his vice-presidential candidate, Datti Baba-Ahmed, will restore the rule of law in Nigeria if elected in the 2023 general elections.
Obi, who spoke during the LP presidential campaign rally in Bayelsa State, which was held at the Oxbow Lake Pavilion in Yenagoa on Friday, said that citizens would no longer be harrased by the police and other security agencies.
According to him, the responsibility of the government is to cater to the poor.
Obi said, “The purpose of government is to care for the poor. Datti and I have said we will secure and unite Nigeria. We will make sure that Nigerians are governed by the rule of law. The were will no more police harassment. Police will no longer harass students for having laptops.
“We are promising what we are going to do. All those people have been promising you a lot and they have not delivered anything.
“Next year, we are going to have an election that will not be based on tribe; we are going to have an election that will not be based on religion; we are going to have an election that will not be by my turn. It is the turn of Nigerians to take back their country. It is the turn of Nigerian youths to take back their country.”
He said the Federal Government had allegedly treated Bayelsa unfairly despite the fact that it was the place the country’s oil wealth was first struck, adding that the government “abandoned” the state during the 2022 flood disaster.
The LP presidential flagbearer, however, promised to “make sure Bayelsa gets its fair share of what they have been giving to Nigeria,” noting that the state deserves more.
Obi while pledging to clean up environmental pollution in Bayelsa and other Niger Delta states said, “Bayelsa deserves more. It has given so much to Nigeria. This is where Nigeria got its first oil (well) in 1956. Look at Bayelsa, they don’t have anything to show for it.
“We will clean up the environment of Bayelsa, everywhere there is environmental pollution, I will clean it up. Bayelsa people will be able to feed again and eat fish from their waters; there will be road from Yenagoa to Port Harcourt.”
Credit: Punch