But including courage, competence, compassion, character, and the collective determination of Nigerians, we can commence to tune the story,” he added. When poverty becomes the instrument throughout which politicians purchase votes, citizens are trapped in a cycle where the same structure that impoverishes them is repeatedly rewarded.
The presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), Peter Obi, has vowed to unite the country, challenge insecurity, fight poverty, unemployment, hunger, and hopelessness if elected into power in 2027.
Naija News reports that Obi made the pledge during a townhall meeting using the community of Sokoto Condition on Monday.
The former Governor of Anambra Situation who made the dislcosure in a upload through his 𝕏 account on Tuesday, promised to fulfill all the electoral promises if elected.
According to him, the promises were made later than listening to the community who attended the townhall meeting in Sokoto Situation.
“Yesterday, 28th September, once paying a courtesy refer to on His Eminence, the Sultan of Sokoto, we had a highly interesting Town Hall together with the humans of Sokoto. We must break this cycle of inferior management driven by transactional politics.
“The task ahead is enormous. We must fight poverty, unemployment, hunger, and hopelessness if we are to decrease criminality and produce a safer culture,” he wrote.
The NDC candidate condemned a status where politicians acquire voters’ votes due to the poverty declare in the country.
According to him, the cycle of weak leadreship and transactional politics must be broken.
“We discussed cash politics and its devastating consequences. We must unite the country and talk around insecurity decisively, during the time that furthermore addressing human being insecurity. It was an expectation to listen, solution questions, and speak honestly on the Nigeria we prefer to construct together.
“The questions were understandable: unity, security, education, subsidy, healthcare, corruption, poverty, agriculture, power, infrastructure, ethnicity, and the forthcoming of our country.
“Our statement was equally plain: there will be no fake promises.
Source: 2027: No Fake Promises
