Ahead of next month’s Presidential elections, the candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi has reiterated his earlier stance that the presidency is not a retirement home for aged people.
Obviously referring to his counterpart from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, and Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Obi claimed that they lacked the energy to preside over Nigeria’s presidency.
Speaking in Enugu, the LP presidential candidate said they were too old and lacked the requisite energy to govern Nigeria in 2023.
‘Of all the major presidential candidates – we are three. Two have come (to the South-east) and gone. If you go and check their age, the first one is in his 70’s, the second one, nobody knows his actual age’.
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‘Aso Rock is not a retirement home. We have said it. Let people who are old look for retirement homes elsewhere.
‘When I came to Enugu, I visited the Enugu campus (of UNN) and then went to Nsukka Campus, before coming here. After here, I will travel to Onitsha. They can’t do it. Presidency job requires energy,‘ he said.
In another report, a seasoned political activist and one of the spokespersons of the Obi/Datti campaign organisation, South-West, Dele Farotimi has asserted that Mr. Obi will win the 2023 presidential election on the first ballot.
Farotimi stated this while speaking in an interview with Politics Hub, a Vanguard Online TV’s political show yesterday which was monitored by Africa Today News, New York.
The social rights activist, during the interview, told the anchor of the TV show, Damilola Ogunsakin that the elections which will hold next month have caught the attention of Nigerians in a way that it has never arrested their attention before.