By Harry Awurumibe, Editor Abuja Bureau
The much-awaited policy document of one the frontline political parties in Nigeria has been made public as the presidential flagbearer of the Labour Party, Mr. Peter Gregory Obi and his running mate, Dr. Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed have released a 72-page manifesto titled ‘Pact with Nigeria’ in which they outlined seven priority areas they will be focusing on if elected in the 2023 general election to lead the country.
The policy document which was made public by the LP leadership late on Saturday has been uploaded on the party’s website while Prompt News understands that the Obi-Datti
Presidential Campaign Organisation may be planning a public presentation to further explain the Manifesto to the press who will help in taking the message to Nigerians.
In the document, the LP candidate and his vice presidential candidate promised to among other things, offer honest and competent leadership in order to deliver in 7 key priority areas including : Security, economy, restructuring, infrastructure, war against corruption.
Said he: “As your President, I Peter Gregory Onwubuasi Obi, my Vice President, Yusuf Datti Baba- Ahmed and our team pledge to:
Secure and unite our dear nation, and manage our diversity such that no one is left behind in Nigeria.
“• Move Nigeria from consumption to production.
• Embark on comprehensive legal and institutional reforms and practicable restructuring measures, to fight corruption; to ensure the enthronement of the rule of law, and decisively tackle all forms of corruption.
• Prioritize Human Capital Development through robust investments in STEM education, health, and infrastructural development, with emphasis on wealth creation, distribution and sustainable development”.
Obi revealed that they will also:
“• Engineer the transition of Nigeria from fossil fuel dependency to climate and eco-friendly energy use.
• Pursue holistic poverty eradication with emphasis on agricultural revolution through effective utilization of our vast arable lands, particularly in Northern Nigeria, and erase Nigeria’s categorization as the poverty capital of the world.
• Improve access to finance, particularly to MSMEs, youths and women, to significantly reduce unemployment and insecurity.
• Ensure that in policy and practice, governance will be made more inclusive, cost-effective, transformative, and less transactional. No more sharing of the national wealth by a few.”
The former Anambra state Governor also promised to:
“Ensure that our diversity will be leveraged to give women and youths, the aged and persons with disabilities, an unfettered voice in governance, and a renewed sense of patriotism and faith in Nigeria.
“ Ensure that Nigeria is progressively better governed through legislative, executive, and judicial reforms, so that the constitutional separation of powers among the three arms of government is entrenched and the three tiers of government allowed to function independently and jointly for a more inclusive and sustainable Nigeria.“
While insisting that a new Nigeria is still possible Obi said: “Our vision is a secure, united and prosperous Nigeria that works for everyone and that realizes the hope of black people of the world as a city on the hill.
“We will run a government of national unity, bringing together for the task at hand, all competent, honest, and diligent Nigerians, irrespective of their political affiliations.
“The new Nigeria we build will be truly ‘one nation bound in freedom, peace and unity”where“peaceand justice shall reign.”
