2023 Must Be Based On Competence Not By Turn – Peter Obi

Mr Peter Obi, the Labour Party presidential candidate on Monday, stated that 2023 election is not by anybody’s turn nor by connection rather by competence.

Obi while speaking during a national retreat of the party held in Abuja said;

“We will do this retreat now; after the election, we will do another one. Next year’s elections will not be based on ethnicity.”

“We have had it before; it would not be on religion. There is no place that Christians buy things cheaper; there is no place that Muslims buy things cheaper.

“It will not be by turn, it is nobody’s turn. It must not be by connection. The election next year must be based on character and trust; it must be based on competence.”

Although Peter Obi didn’t direct his statement on any individual, recall that the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu had claimed that 2023 presidency was his turn as he had aided President Muhammadu Buhari emerge president in 2015 after several failed attempts.

Tinubu had used the phrase “Èmi Lọ Kàn” – a Yoruba term meaning, “I’m the next” during a press conference in Ogun State.