Peter Obi insists he 'll serve four years, reduce corruption

Prominent opposition political figure in Nigeria and the 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi, has reiterated his pledge to serve for only one term of four years and restore Nigeria glory.

Obi has said he is ready to serve only for four years if giving the opportunity to become Nigeria president, a pledge which the All progressives Congress, APC, has continued fall on themselves, that it a bogus claim and not realistic.

But Obi in Bauchi state on Friday repeated the pledge, adding that he will within the four years reduce corruption in the country.

He said that fighting corruption in Nigeria is not as difficult as it is generally perceived.

Obi had a talk show session on youth and leadership opportunities with students of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU), Bauchi, on Friday.

He said, “We are talking about corruption, but let me tell you, fighting corruption is not as difficult as people make it look.

“If you, your wife and children are not stealing, you have reduced corruption by 60 per cent.

“I’ve served as chairman of a bank at a time when most people who were directors of banks were busy taking loans from their banks.

“Go and check any bank where I was a director or chairman, where that bank gave me a loan as a director. Go and check if anything was missing while I was there.

“I served as governor of a state for eight years and I challenge everybody to go and show me where one kobo of Anambra State that I’m not entitled to was linked to me,” he said.

According to him, corruption can be fought swiftly, reiterating that if given the opportunity to serve as president in 2027, he will serve for only one term of four years.

“If I have the opportunity to serve as Nigeria’s president in 2027, I will do so for only four years. It can be less, but it will never be more. I will not stay a day longer than four years.

“People say what can you do in four years? There is a lot you can do in four years because you can bring civility and laws that start good governance in four years,” he said.