As the campaign for the 2023 general election picks up, the Nigerian Professionals for Peter Obi, has urged Nigerian youths to retrieve the country from corrupt and incompetent leaders through the ballot box next year.
At a press conference yesterday in Abuja, the group charged the youths to seize the opportunity of the polls to effect a paradigm shift in leadership style in Nigeria by ensuring the election of a dynamic and knowledgeable president like Peter Obi.
The group’s national convener, Dr Ikechukwu Stanley Okafor, lamented the country’s poor human development index, adding that, “At no time in the history of this nation is the quest for good leadership more exigent than now.”
He said, “With the youth unemployment and underemployment at a staggering 63.5%, 82.9 million people living in abject poverty making Nigeria the world’s poverty capital, 20 million out of school children according to UNESCO report, inflation rate at 20.52%, second most corrupt country in West Africa, an endless ASUU strike and insecurity at its worst since independence, our country is in dire straits and in need of urgent intervention to halt the downward slide.
“It is this pitiable state of the federation and the need to salvage the country from thieving rent seekers, and corrupt establishment proponents, that has provoked the wave of youth consciousness sweeping through the country evidenced in the Obidient movement.
“The youthful majority that has been either absent or relegated to the background in the leadership recruitment process of the nation, have realized that if they do not retrieve their country from incompetent, clueless and corrupt charlatans, masquerading as leaders, they may have no country to call their own, tomorrow.”
The group asserted that Peter Obi is the choice of Nigerian youths because he embodies the hope and the ideals that can birth the nation we collectively crave.
A resident of Lokogoma, Ahmed Kolo, said there is nothing to hide, adding that the country is in a bad condition. He said things are not just working and that Peter Obi is the only candidate that is expressing hope for the country in his campaign promises. He promised to support Obi as he remains the hope for the country.
