2023: Presidency will not be by turn – Peter Obi tells Tinubu

The presidential candidate of Labour Party (LP), Mr Peter Obi, has said the 2023 presidential election will not be based no body’s turn, stressing that rather it must be based on character and trust.

Speaking at the Labour Party Leadership Retreat in Abuja on Monday, Obi promised to sign a performance agreement with the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) to ensure that ideas generated at the retreat were implemented to the letter.

“We will do this retreat now; after election we will do another one. Next year’s elections 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 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,” he said.

He stated that corruption is pervasive in Nigeria because leaders are involved.

Obi said, “If a leader is not stealing, and the family around him are not stealing, we will reduce corruption by 70 per cent. 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 per cent, we must have made sacrifices.”