Stingy man will save, invest your money — Peter Obi reveals

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi has said the money of Nigeria would be safer when handled by a stingy man.

Obi said a stingy man will save and invest the country’s money in health, education and other sectors of the economy.

The presidential candidate made this revelation while addressing his supporters in Asaba, the capital of Delta State.

“I know you heard when they said Peter is stingy. We want to use our money for our people.

“This election is about character and people we can trust. Everybody knows the schools I attended. When I was the governor in Anambra, everybody knows what I did, all the works I did. When I left government, everybody knows where I live, go and verify.”

He said he’s high time the people of the country retired the old political actors.

He said: “If you put my age and Dati’s (my vice) age and divide it by two, we are in our 50s. But the other people, they are in their 70s. You know there is a retirement age. PDP chairman is 70 years, APC chairman is 70 years, while Labour Party chairman is 52 years old. So it is our turn. We will retire them, we will pay them compensation.

“It’s the reason I told you our average age, not this other people we don’t know their age, we don’t know where they were born, we don’t know the schools they attended.”

Obi’s running mate, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmad, said: “Do you know how to know the losers? They have made promises for 24 years, for 16 years, for eight years, and they all failed.

“They cannot face Peter Obi and myself and talk about security, they will hide behind and talk about structure. The structure they used to destroy Nigeria and keep us where we are today.”