The presidential candidate of Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi had a town hall meeting with Nigerians resident in Toronto Canada. Obi was earlier in Germany where he also spoke with Nigerians in the diaspora.
Here are the highlights of his speech in Toronto:
Africa will remain the centrepiece of our foreign policy. We will improve Nigeria’s diplomatic sphere of influence via peacekeeping, trade, and investment initiatives.
We will aggressively pursue increased contribution of ICT to overall economic growth & national development.
We intend to lay special emphasis on critical infrastructures, especially Power, to ensure a clear measurable increase of today’s generation, transmission & distribution by 200% within the shortest possible time, through public private partnership.
We will emphasize patriotism, national interest and national morale, quality of governance, political will and character as complimentary to others. We will ensure that we have these assets in place and stress asset optimization.
We will pursue intangible assets of good governance, rule of law, security of lives and properties, through an aggressive increase in personnel and equipment, and inclusive training of operatives in our security agencies.
We will have zero tolerance for corruption, and will cut the cost of governance. Total commitment to transparency and accountability in government business is the only credible way to achieve limited to zero corruption.
We will aggressively pursue human capital development in the education and health sectors with available resources, while striving to adopt best global practices.
In transforming the economy, we intend to make it more productive, thus creating employment and prosperity for millions of youths, reducing poverty in the land, addressing issues of criminality and insecurity.
Our vision and mission is to give full expression to our democracy by moving our country from consumption to production.
The Nigeria Diaspora has the capacity, and therefore must have a commensurate voice. By the 2027 elections, Nigeria Diaspora must have a voice via absentee ballots.
Bad leadership has seriously damaged Nigeria; we must rescue our country and end bad governance.
It feels good to be in Toronto, Canada. I am very grateful to the Peter Obi Nigerian Canadian Interest Groups, and the local organising committee that put this event together.
