The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi has urged voters in Gombe State not to vote based on religion or ethnicity, saying hunger, poverty, unemployment and insecurity have no regard for tribal and religious sentiments.
Obi, who campaigned on Wednesday in Gombe, Nigeria’s North-East, told a crowd of supporters that only a competent and compassionate leader can give Nigeria a rebirth at this time of its history.
“When they say vote for them because they are from the north, tell them we are hungry, tell them we have no jobs, we have no schools, you are not secured. And a northerner is the president?” he queried.
“Is there anywhere northerners buy bread cheaper? The same thing for people in the south. Is there anywhere Muslims buy bread cheaper? Is there anywhere Christians buy bread cheaper? Don’t vote for them because of religion. Don’t vote because it is anybody’s turn. It is your turn to take back Nigeria.”
The LP presidential candidate was in the state alongside his running mate, Datti Baba-Ahmed, and other party chieftains like a foremost political economist, Pat Utomi.
“Election this year is an election to start building a new Nigeria. And that new Nigeria can only come when you vote people who are competent when you vote people who have character when you vote people who have compassion, people who have the physical and mental energy to do the job,” he said.
“All we want to do is to build a new Nigeria; a Nigeria where everyone will be happy. Today, all you have in Nigeria is poverty, hunger, joblessness, kidnapping, insecurity, everything.”Again, the massive support we received at Gombe and Borno States today reassured me of the very victory we as Nigerians look forward to, for the good and progress of our nation. We will win together as a nation!
Thank you Gombe!
