The Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi has released a seven-point promise as he presented a 72-page manifesto to Nigeria.
Obi’s seven-point promises include moving Nigeria from consumption to production capacity, comprehensive legal and institutional reforms and practicable restructuring measures, fighting corruption; ensuring the enthronement of the rule of law, and decisively tackling all forms of corruption, and prioritizing human capital development through robust investments in STEM education, health, and infrastructural development, with emphasis on wealth creation, distribution, and sustainable development.
He said if elected president, he would transit Nigeria from fossil fuel dependency to climate and eco-friendly energy use, engage holistic poverty eradication with emphasis on agricultural revolution through effective utilization of our vast arable lands, particularly in Northern Nigeria, and erase Nigeria’s categorization as the poverty capital of the world, as well as improve access to finance, particularly to MSMEs, youths and women, to reduce unemployment and insecurity significantly.
The last of the Obis seven-point promise is that he would ensure that governance will be made more inclusive, cost-effective, transformative, and less transactional in policy and practice. No more sharing of the national wealth by a few.
“We will build a new social order where political leaders will be public servants working for the good of the people and not predators, flourishing in the midst of extreme poverty and misery.
“We are building a society where citizens are motivated to work hard, to innovate, to invent, fully assured that they will enjoy the fruits of their enterprise.
“We want to create wealth for Nigeria and for every household through diligence, frugality, and enterprise.
“Our new Nigeria is a country all Nigerians will be proud to call home because it is an economic giant that can feed its citizens, defend them from any aggression and secure them in their homes and businesses.”
The manifesto was tagged: “Pact with Nigeria” and made public by the LP leadership late Saturday night, December 3.
