We are determined to win this election and take Nigerians out of poverty, Ezekwesili
The presidential candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN), in the February 16 election, Dr. Oby Ezekwesili has reinstated her determination and that of her party to win the election, saying that her determination was borne out of her desire to redirect the nation of poverty.
Ezekwesili therefore urge Nigerians to take ownership of her campaign and ensure they do everything possible for her to emerge, as her victory at the election will be nothing personal, but a victory for the Nigerian people.
Ezekwesili who spoke at a stakeholder’s meeting with party members and Market leaders in Yaba area of Lagos before embarking on a one on one interaction with traders at Tejuosho Market, Yaba, said she was on a mission to rescue Nigeria from a debilitating poverty which is gradually taking over the country with the recent report that Nigeria has overtaken India as the poverty capital of the world, urging the people to partner with her to achieve it.
She said, “One thing that is important is that Nigerians must be got to commit to this, they and I as the candidate of our party must be ready to rescue Nigeria together, because I am not running just to be President, but I am running to lead a sensitive agenda that will rescue the country for all of us. I am running to rescue, and the rescue cannot be done by one or two people.
“Nigeria can no longer afford another four years of this government, our party the ACPN is in this to win, we are not in this to make a point, but to win, what we want Nigerians to know is that we don’t want to win as individuals, but we want Nigeria people to win, so the election is not about they have won, no, it should be that Nigerians have won, because when Nigerians win, then everybody will be part of this process of the governance of our country.
“The process of governance cannot be delivered only by people of the political class, that is exactly what we want to change, for too long people have been disconnected from people who have governed them, but under the ACPN administration, the people will be the government.
“The second important point to us is that we have seen how urgent it is for our country to arrest the decline, today we are known as the world’s capital for poverty, we overtook India, a country that is seven times our population by have 87million Nigeria living in poverty and according to the analysis that produced that result, that number will grow and double as our population grows and doubles.
“One thing we know in the world of development is that poverty can distabilise a government. Even if the world of development did not tell us that directly, we can now see from what happens in regions where there is prolific poverty.
“How many of you will like to see a replay of the North East in the rest of the regions of our country, certainly no one. Poverty is a distabiliser, so we must attack poverty with a clear sense of urgency, that is why we have fashioned out programme of taking 80 million people out of poverty,” she said.
Ezekwesili therefore urge Nigerians to take ownership of her campaign and ensure they do everything possible for her to emerge, as her victory at the election will be nothing personal, but a victory for the Nigerian people.
Ezekwesili who spoke at a stakeholder’s meeting with party members and Market leaders in Yaba area of Lagos before embarking on a one on one interaction with traders at Tejuosho Market, Yaba, said she was on a mission to rescue Nigeria from a debilitating poverty which is gradually taking over the country with the recent report that Nigeria has overtaken India as the poverty capital of the world, urging the people to partner with her to achieve it.
She said, “One thing that is important is that Nigerians must be got to commit to this, they and I as the candidate of our party must be ready to rescue Nigeria together, because I am not running just to be President, but I am running to lead a sensitive agenda that will rescue the country for all of us. I am running to rescue, and the rescue cannot be done by one or two people.
“Nigeria can no longer afford another four years of this government, our party the ACPN is in this to win, we are not in this to make a point, but to win, what we want Nigerians to know is that we don’t want to win as individuals, but we want Nigeria people to win, so the election is not about they have won, no, it should be that Nigerians have won, because when Nigerians win, then everybody will be part of this process of the governance of our country.
“The process of governance cannot be delivered only by people of the political class, that is exactly what we want to change, for too long people have been disconnected from people who have governed them, but under the ACPN administration, the people will be the government.
“The second important point to us is that we have seen how urgent it is for our country to arrest the decline, today we are known as the world’s capital for poverty, we overtook India, a country that is seven times our population by have 87million Nigeria living in poverty and according to the analysis that produced that result, that number will grow and double as our population grows and doubles.
“One thing we know in the world of development is that poverty can distabilise a government. Even if the world of development did not tell us that directly, we can now see from what happens in regions where there is prolific poverty.
“How many of you will like to see a replay of the North East in the rest of the regions of our country, certainly no one. Poverty is a distabiliser, so we must attack poverty with a clear sense of urgency, that is why we have fashioned out programme of taking 80 million people out of poverty,” she said.
