Obi fires back at Tinubu, Atiku, says I’ll retire them

• Promises to revive Warri port, complete East-West road

Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has fired back at Bola Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar, vowing to retire them from active politics.

He stated this at a campaign rally in Asaba, Delta State, on Monday, stressing the 2023 election is about character and people Nigerians can trust.

He also pledged to revitalise the Warri port as well as to complete the East-West road.

Obi urged Nigerians not to elect persons 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; the 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.

“I know you heard when they said Peter is stingy. I agree, Nigeria doesn’t want people who will steal their money again. We want to use our money for our people.

“This election is about character and people we can trust. Everybody knows the schools I attended. When I was the governor in Anambra, everybody knows what I did; all the work I did. When I left government, everybody knows where I live; go and verify.”

Tinubu while campaigning in Ondo said Obi had a chance to show how progressive he could be when he was governor of Anambra State.

“All he could do was boast that he saved money. But I tell you it is a wicked parent that holds money in his hand yet allows his children to starve. Likewise, it is a heartless governor who holds back money when people go hungry, and schools, roads and clinics go into disrepair. Neither the city-dweller nor the farmer prospered under him,” said Tinubu.