Ahead of the February 25th general election, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi has called on the Nigerian people to reject moneybag politicians during the highly important election.
Speaking during a campaign in Ekiti State on Thursday, Obi asserted that; ‘Moneybags have played a lot of roles but they brought us to poverty’.
The LP presidential candidate pointed this out during an interview with reporters asked to respond to comments by legal luminary, Afe Babalola who had submitted that the highest spender and not the best among the candidates will win the presidential election.
However, Obi submitted that the time was ripe for Nigerians to reject moneybags to elect quality leaders who will bring about the desired change in the country.
‘It is time to reject them (moneybags). I am pleading for Nigerians to reject them because they cannot continue. If they continue, we are going to be impoverished,’ Obi said.
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The former Anambra State governor also asked Nigerians to shun ethnic and religious sentiments in voting during the forthcoming presidential election.
Obi said he is the most qualified of the 18 candidates jostling for the top Aso Rock job and promised to provide jobs for youths.
Of late, Obi has been endorsed by elder statemen like former President Olusegun Obasanjo; leader of the Pan Niger Delta Forum, Edwin Clark; as well as nonagenarian leader of pan Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, Ayo Adebanjo.
Africa Today News, New York reports that Obi, who has been put ahead of other candidates in many pre-election polls of late, is mostly popular amongst youths who yearn for genuine national change but only time will tell the winner of the February 25 election.
He is presently on an election tour of the South West states.