Ndidiamaka EdeThe Labour Party (LP) Presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi, has assured that if elected, he would ensure that there is no strike that could delay students in schools across the country.
Obi made the promise at Margaret Ekpo Auditorium during his campaign tour to the University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN) on Thursday, 12th January 2023.
While addressing the crowd at the event, the former Anambra State governor lamented that Nigeria as a country is currently going through a lot of difficulties, and as a result, the citizens had come to believe that education is a scam, adding that students are equally worried of getting jobs after graduation.
“As a country, we are passing through a lot, everybody says education is a scam. You are worried of getting jobs after graduation. Course of four years is being studied six and seven years.
“If I serve this country, four years will be four years. Strike will end and we would move this country from consumption to production country.”
He further stated that government funds will be properly utilised for the public good, adding that kidnapping will stop and the people would be made important in the country.
While expressing his excitement for being in the midst of students, Obi said he regards them as his family.
“I assure you, being here is being with my family, I am happy to be at home. I can comfortably say that I am one of you.”
“UNN since its inception in 1960s has produced so many governors, senators and other prominent persons in our society, it is time for her to produce a president,” said the LP presidential candidate.
Obi, who urged the students to collect their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs), and exercise their fundamental human rights on election day, stated that a new Nigeria where there will be nothing like the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) strike and the structure of stealing public funds is possible.
Other dignitaries at the event included the Labour Party Senatorial candidate in Enugu North, Barr Okey Ezea, popular Nollywood actor, Kenneth Okonkwo, and Nigerian activist, Aisha Yusuf, among other prominent party stakeholders.
Obi was a student at UNN from 1980 to 1984 when he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy.
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