Berekete Family: Can Nigeria afford to miss Peter Obi’s Presidency?

The Labour Party Presidential Candidate for the 2023 general election, Peter Obi, was recently a guest of the Berekete Family, an Abuja Radio 101.1 FM phoning program anchored by a man with a studio name; Ordinary President.

True to the name of the program anchor, Peter Obi, the guest, turned into an ordinary president of Nigeria.

Below are Obi’s sound bites that caught the presenter shedding tears and weeping for Nigeria. The presenter wondered if Nigeria could afford to miss Peter Obi’s presidency.

1. It is a mark of irresponsibility that our children are at home and we are campaigning – Peter Obi

2. We bought our tickets at 40 million/100 million naira. Can Nigerians demand from candidates their annual income taxes – Peter Obi

3. Nigeria is chairing 18 billion dollars from oil revenue while Malaysia is making 50 billion dollars from Diaspora remittance – Peter Obi

4. By 2030, the whole world will be in dire need of computer engineers and health professionals to the tune of 10 million people, and our children are wasting at home – Peter Obi

5. Kwamen Nkuruma University Ghana is the best university in Africa and one of the best 50 in the world in science and Technology study – Peter Obi

6. If I become the President, education in primary and secondary schools will be free while Tertiary education will not be free – Peter Obi

7. My first three priorities as President will be education, education and education – Peter Obi

8. I will invest and invest in education and export graduates and increase diaspora remittance from 20 billion dollars – Peter Obi

9. As Governor of Anambra State, I paid all Corps members serving in schools 4,000 naira on the 24th of every month as a stipend – Peter Obi

10. As Governor, I paid every citizen of Anambra above the age of 70 and residing in a rural area a stipend of 5,000 naira every month – Peter Obi

11. When I assumed office as Governor, I discovered that Anambra State has a governor’s Lodge at Abuja. I renovated the building and donated it to the United Nations (UN). It eliminated our cost of maintenance, and till today UN has been supporting Anambra State Government – Peter Obi

12. You can fight insecurity in two ways, natural insecurity is fought by creating jobs, and institutional insecurity will be fought with Technology – Peter Obi

13. There is nothing like a security vote in our constitution. What we have is a contingency vote which should be a max of 4% of expenditure – Peter Obi

14. As Governor, they brought a security vote of 12.5 billion for approval annually. I gave each primary school in the state 5 million each, secondary school 10 million each, and supported five schools of nursing and midwifery to get accreditation. Gave about 500 first-class graduates from Anambra each 1 million Naira. All cost the state 10 billion. The remaining 2.5 billion was used as a security vote, which covered the payment of security personnel at communities, bought vehicles for 200 communities in Anambra – Peter Obi

15. To create jobs, banks must be made to give a certain percentage of loans to SMEs – Peter Obi

16. I have a 28 years old son who works in the UK and has no car. He has to earn and buy himself a car – Peter Obi

17. My 30 years old daughter is a teacher in a secondary school, and she is happy doing her work – Peter Obi

18. Throughout my eight years as Governor, nobody in the Obi family served in my government. I was the one elected, and none of them. I take all responsibility for governance – Peter Obi

19. If as President, I don’t steal, my wife and children don’t steal, Corruption would have been cut by 50% – Peter Obi

20. The youths you neglect today will take revenge on you tomorrow. #TAKE BACK YOUR COUNTRY, IT’S IN THE WRONG HANDS.