Insecurity: I’ll go into the bush and rescue kidnap victims if elected – Peter Obi

The Presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), Peter Obi, has vowed to enter forests on rescue mission if elected president in 2027, declaring that his administration wouldn’t tolerate kidnapping and insecurity.

Obi made the promise whereas addressing supporters throughout a marketing campaign rally in Bayelsa State, the place he pledged to make the nation secure for Nigerians to journey and go about their each day actions with out concern.

He mentioned his administration would start by uniting the nation and making certain that no area or group felt excluded from the Nigerian challenge.

“We will make Nigeria work. We will make Nigeria a place where people will live. We will secure Nigeria. Nobody will live in Nigeria where you can’t travel on the road again,” he mentioned.

Obi cited his latest highway journeys throughout a number of states as proof of the pressing want to enhance safety on the nation’s highways.

“I came to Bayelsa this morning from Enugu by road; I moved around Nigeria by road. On Tuesday, I was in Lokoja; on Wednesday, I was in Akwanga; yesterday, I was in Ebonyi, and today I am in Bayelsa. Our roads must be secured,” he mentioned.

The former Anambra State governor additionally criticised President Bola Tinubu for what he described because the President’s failure to go to Bayelsa State regardless of its contribution to the nation’s economic system by way of oil manufacturing.

He questioned the President’s frequent overseas journeys, arguing that he ought to pay extra consideration to engagement with Nigerians throughout the nation.

“This is a state where Nigeria discovered oil. This is a state where we get money we share, and the President said he will not come here to campaign,” Obi mentioned.

“Our President has travelled out of the country for over 200 days, sometimes 260 days, but he will not come to Bayelsa for one day, and he wants you to vote for him.”

On the safety state of affairs, Obi pledged that an NDC-led authorities would take decisive motion towards kidnappers, significantly these concentrating on schoolchildren and different susceptible Nigerians.

“NDC will secure Nigeria under our government. If anybody takes schoolchildren, if anybody kidnaps anybody, I will go into the bush. We will go into that bush and rescue the person. Nobody will try that in our government,” he declared.

Obi additionally promised to sort out corruption, insisting that public funds could be managed transparently and deployed for the advantage of residents.

He mentioned an NDC authorities would prioritise schooling, electrical energy and different important companies, including that primary schooling could be free by way of collaboration with state governments.

“They say if you fight corruption, corruption will fight you back. And I’m telling you, under the NDC, you run away. You will not fight back because we will use public money for public good,” he mentioned.

“Under NDC, your children will be in school; there will be classrooms. We will work with the states to ensure that basic education, which is primary, will be free.”

On electrical energy, Obi pledged that his administration would work in the direction of producing, transmitting and distributing not less than 10,000 megawatts of electrical energy.

“We will produce, transmit and distribute a minimum of 10,000 megawatts of electricity. The minimum we have today under APC is 4,000,” he mentioned.