If elected president of Nigeria in 2023, Peter Obi, the candidate of the Labour Party, has vowed to reform the country’s security system.
As he promised, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed and he will start the process of turning around Nigeria’s misfortune.
This was said by Obi on Thursday during a visit to the secretariat of the Rivers State Council of Traditional Rulers in Port Harcourt.
Insisting that no government can achieve its goals and objectives without security, he declared that his administration will give all citizens’ security top priority.
“What we are doing today is not sustainable. I and our vice presidential candidate want to start reversing Nigeria. That is all we are offering.
“We want to start reversing Nigeria. How are we going to do it? We want a secure and united Nigeria. People will say it is difficult. No. It is not.
“We need a military that is properly manned. Restructuring our entire security architecture.”
In order to ensure adequate security of people and property, he also wants to increase the number of employees working for the nation’s security agencies.
“Our system is not properly manned starting from the police that is in charge of internal security. Today, it is about 370,000 but the Inspection General of Police told me it is 320,000 which is too low for a country with 200 million people.
“It shouldn’t be. We need to increase this number, equip them properly and we must have multi-level policing.
“There is no reason why we should not have a form of security, local government level,” he said.
The chairman of the Rivers State Council of Traditional Rulers, Dandison Diuglas Jaja, made an urgent call for the revival of the country’s economy in his remarks.
According to Jaja, the hardships faced by common Nigerians have worsened due to the country’s high inflation rate.
In the meantime, tens of thousands of the Labour Party’s presidential candidate’s supporters marched out in unison, singing songs, and followed his convoy all the way to the Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium, outside the city.
The Isaac Adaka Boro Park axis of the city through Aba Road was gridlocked by the crowd, some of whom rented vehicles while many marched along.
Hundreds of Obi’s supporters could be seen cheering for him on both sides of the road as his convoy made its way to the event. He waved back and acknowledged their applause.
