Politics

Peter Obi: I won’t probe past administrations if elected

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has said his administration will not witch hunt previous governments if elected as Nigeria’s President in 2023.

Obi said this in an interview with newsmen on Friday shortly after unveiling the founder of Baze University in Abuja, Datti Baba-Ahmed, as his running mate for the 2023 presidential election.

The former governor of Anambra State said: “As for probing the past government, let me tell you; you see me argue that you can’t close your shop and be chasing thieves, those who only look at yesterday and today will miss tomorrow. God did not give us eyes at the back, mine is to look forward.

“If you come into the government today and decide to stop the leakage first, you will get more. I am not going to be part of any form of victimisation or witch-hunt, it won’t happen. Nigerians must live within law and order.

“But I can tell you right away. If you, the principal person, the local government chairman, the governor or the President are not stealing, your family is not, and those around you are not, you will reduce it by 70 per cent,” Peter Obi stated.

He added that Labour Party would bring all Nigerians into a big tent, where everybody would be involved in ending the primitive politics of ethnicity, religion, and all sorts of things.

The former vice-presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said the party would have a team of people, who would join in building the Nigeria they desired and hope in the country.

The Star