I’d rather die than fail my supporters – Peter Obi

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi has said he would rather die than fail his supporters who are popularly known as Obidients.

Speaking at the Editors Forum, an initiative of the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) in Lagos on Monday, November 21, Obi said the right leadership in Nigeria would turn the country's fortune around by moving from consumption to production.

The former Anambra governor opines that the country is going through a lot of challenges because it was consuming instead of producing.

He noted that if Nigeria is productive, three-quarters of its challenges can be solved.

He mentioned the challenges include unemployment, poverty, criminality and insecurity.

Obi said, “We cannot have that number of people living in poverty and not have criminality, banditry and so on.

“We must remove the sharing formula and replace it with the production formula.

“The hope of this country is the vast uncultivated land, not that oil we are seeing.

“My commitment is to put Nigeria into production.”

On his supporters, Obi promised not to disappoint them.

“I am determined not to fail them. I would rather die than fail them. I am going to serve them,” Obi said.

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