Ahead of the forthcoming primaries of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, one of the leading presidential aspirants of the party, Peter Obi, has said Nigeria does not need a consensus candidacy right now but rather someone that would work to rescue the country to get out of its challenges as the next president.
He also said Nigerians should not allow the All Progressive Congress government to continue, stating the government has drawn the country backward.
Obi stated this while speaking at a meeting with chieftains of the PDP in Ondo, at the party secretariat in Akure, the state capital, on Sunday.
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He said, “The children can no longer eat, we are at high level of misery, we cannot allow them to continue.
“If nothing is done to Nigeria’s problem, it will consume all of us. It will consume our children too.
“We must not talk about the consensus now, we must talk about who will work. Nigerians want consensus that will solve the Nigerian problem.
“We want someone that will take Nigeria from consumption to production level. We must elect somebody that can do the work. We are not talking about who will become the next president of Nigeria but who will start working for this country called Nigeria.”
In his remarks, a leader of the PDP in Ondo and former governor of the state, Olusegun Mimiko, said the PDP was lucky to have competent and credible persons as aspirants to contest for the post of president.
