CCDI endorses Peter Obi, says he’s man of character, capacity, competence

Fri, Feb 17, 2023
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Politics

By Kennedy Nnamani

A socio-cultural group under the auspices of Cultural Credibility Development Initiative, CCDI, has endorsed the candidacy of Peter Obi, Presidential candidate of the Labour Party.

The group made this known in Lagos in a statement signed by Goddy Uwazurike; President and Steve Nwabuko; Secretary.

According to the group, of all the major contenders to the office of President of Nigeria in APC, PDP, and LP, Peter Obi can be distinguished by Character, Capacity and Competence and he is the only one left standing on the strong credentials of Purity, Pedigree, Performance, Perfection and Persuasion.

 “At the beginning of 2023, we conducted a membership survey of those in favour of Mr Peter Obi to become the elected President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and over 88 percent of us signed up in clear affirmation of Peter Obi as President,” it said.

Speaking further, CCDI noted that it has examined all other candidates from the major political parties and singled the candidacy of Peter Obi to be the only ticket that can assure equity, justice, inclusiveness and fair play, which it said are hallmarks of nation building.

While speaking on the competence of the presidential flag bearer of the Labour Party, the group noted that he is a man “with character, capacity and competence to pull Nigeria out of the precipice, reposition her from consumption to production, reignite the energies of her youths to triumphant participation in nation building, pull the citizenry out of poverty, reunite Nigeria of all cleavages, language and religion under a diversity that works and does not discriminate, offer proven rendition of services in integrity and values driven mandate and restore the dignity of Nigerians in Nigeria and abroad.”

It added that the force behind the unanimous endorsement for the Labour party’s candidate was propelled by the clear understanding of the problem of the nation and the clear roadmap to solving it, displayed by Obi.

“It is not because it is the turn of any ethnic group to govern or lay claim to power, rather, the emergence of Peter Obi in the firmament of Nigeria’s troubled political rhetoric with energy, zeal, strength, frenzy, wisdom, knowledge and understanding of what Nigeria wants and where Nigeria ought to be, that has encouraged us in Cultural Credibility Development Initiative in unison to pick Mr Peter Obi, the Labour Party Presidential candidate as the best person to become the President of Nigeria by the outcome of the February, 25th Presidential election,” it said.

Meanwhile, the group lamented the deplorable state of the nation, referring to the decline in Nigeria’s economic, political, social, cultural and technological fortunes in the face of massive oil revenue earnings resulting in Nigeria ranking as the poverty capital of the world.

It attributed these problems to leadership failure arising from poor management of national resources by our past leaders.“The huge debt profile, epileptic power supply, general insecurity, high rate of out-of-school children, youth restiveness, incessant ASUU strikes, depletion of the foreign reserves, fall in the value of the naira, crash in the standard of living of Nigerians, have combined to point to a state in urgent need of national rebirth,” it added.

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