• “We want the oil discovered in Bauchi to be used to develop Bauchi and to give you jobs” – Obi
A Peoples Democratic Party leader in Rivers State, Amos Miller, has said that in desperation to get votes from the Northern part of Nigeria, Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi has “projected the oil producing states in the South as stupid for allowing the oil produced in the region to be used in developing the entire country”.
He added; “when Obi promised that the oil found in Bauchi State will be used in developing the state and the Northern Nigeria, did he remember that the oil in the Southern states are used for the entire country?”
He advised Obi “to withdraw the statement immediately or face alienation from voters in the Niger Delta states as well as other oil producing states in the South for projecting them as foolish”.
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, had on Thursday, assured the people of Bauchi State and Northern Nigeria that the oil discovered in the state will be used to develop their state and region.
He made the pledge at the party’s presidential campaign rally at the Tafawa Balewa Stadium in Bauchi, the capital of Bauchi State, North-Eastern Nigeria.
He said; “We know what is happening in Bauchi today. We want the oil discovered in Bauchi to be used to develop Bauchi, and to give you jobs. We will make sure that oil is used to develop Bauchi, to develop the North, to make sure everything is working not that somebody will steal the money and everybody is hungry.
“Go out on the 25th, go and vote for Labour, go and look for LP and vote for LP, and then you will start seeing a new Nigeria,” Obi said.