Labour Party’s presidential candidate Mr Peter Obi said he would not offer excuses but frontally confront the country’s challenges if elected president of Nigeria in 2023.
Obi who spoke at a two-day leadership retreat by Labour Party for its candidates for next year’s general elections, noted that the job of a leader is to solve problems and not to give excuses.
He said it was disappointing for a candidate supported by organised labour to fail the people.
“I am in this retreat to listen. Even if we don’t achieve 100 percent, we must make sacrifices,” he said.
He decried the recurrent strike actions by Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), 12 years after the Federal Government signed agreement with members of the union.
“How much is ASUU asking for that Nigerian government cannot pay since the last 12 years? N1.2 trillion,” Obi said, noting that the revenue which accrued for the country for the month of July alone was enough to settle the union’s demand.
Obi noted that next year’s election would not be based on ethnicity or religion, but on character, competent and capacity.
President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Comrade Ayuba Wabba, assured that Nigeria workers would actively participating in selecting next leaders of the country.
