Mr Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s (LP) Presidential Candidate in the February election, has urged voters to vote for the character rather than the tribe.
Obi stated this on Saturday in Akure at a town hall meeting to solicit Ondo State voters’ support for the February 25 election.
The LP presidential candidate explained that he and his running mate, Sen Ahmed Datti, were people with traceable backgrounds, and that if elected, Nigerians would be proud and secure in their country.
Obi stated that he was stingy but not corrupt, which is why he was able to save for the people of Anambra state as Governor.
“They said that I’m stingy, we want stingy people now so that we can keep the money. We want to make sure we use your money to transform the country.
“Don’t vote for tribe, if they say it is their turn, tell them it is your turn to take back the country. We are ready to save the country.
“This election is about character. You know our background, the school we went, we don’t know to their age,” he said.
Obi explained that the country was not secured and people were living in suffering and hunger, adding that he would recruit more policemen and military and insure them so that they could lay their lives for the country.
Obi promised to support small businesses, saying that no Nigerian would leave his or her community because of insecurity. We guarantee you that insecurity will stop.
“We want to change Nigeria for better. We want to move Nigeria from consumption to production.
“We don’t want people to run out of Nigeria again. We want to restructure Nigeria for development. We want to build a better Nigeria, so go out and support us.
“We want to fight corruption. We will make sure that we have electricity. The whole South of Ondo State has not seen electricity for several years, how can there be development?.
“Pick your PVCs and vote for Labour Party and make sure that they count the vote. I am the only Governor that left good money,” Obi said