• Obi apologises to traditional rulers for not paying courtesy visits
Mammoth crowds, Monday welcomed Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi to rallies held in Water Resources and Refinery Road, Effurun, as well as Asaba, Delta State.
Addressing ecstatic crowds in Effurun who continually punctuated his speech with shouts of ‘Obi! Obi!! Obi!!!’; the LP presidential candidate pledged to reactivate all the ailing industries in the state, stating in pidgin that “..this Warri wey una see, if to say government dey work, e for no be like this.”
At the rally in Asaba, Delta State capital, Peter Obi vowed to retire Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar from politics, adding that the 2023 election is about character and people Nigerians can trust.
The former Anambra governor pledged to revitalize the refinery in Ekpan/Warri, which had been in disrepair, as well as complete the East-West road.
He urged Nigerians not to elect persons who were known to have looted the treasury of the nation in the past.
He said, “We will make Warri Port work again. We will complete the East-West road. They have been building the road for 24 years but we will complete it.
“If you put my age and Datti’s age and divide it into two, we are in our fifties. The other people if you put their own they are in their seventies. You know that there is a retirement age. The PDP chairman is 70 years, APC chairman is 70 years. The Labour Party chairman is 52 years old. So it is our turn. We will retire them, we will pay them compensation.
“Our government will be one for youth and women. That is why I told you our average age, not these other people we don’t know their age, we don’t know where they were born, we don’t know which school they attended.
Earlier in the Effurun rallies, he apologised for not paying courtesy visits to the traditional rulers in Delta Central, Isoko and Ika nations.
He rendered the apology via his Twitter handle @PeterObi: “I sincerely want to apologise to the Traditional Rulers and the people of Delta Central, who gathered at Olomu, the people of Isoko who I was supposed to meet at Oleh and the people of Agbor who came out in their numbers to welcome me to their domains.
“However, it became impossible to carry out the visits following the mammoth crowd. I apologise and promise to repeat the visits.”