In the event that the Labour Party’s Peter Obi wins the highly anticipated election on February 25, 2023: he has said that his administration will apologise to every victim of police abuse.
He asserted that the nation’s security personnel will “no longer” be used for harassment and promised to uphold the rule of law and order as being of the utmost importance.
Obi said, “The police will be a friend, not an enemy. Law enforcement organisations will be outfitted, and more trained individuals will be recruited. They will carry out the policing. We won’t experience the same issues we have now.
Additionally, he told the public that the journalists will be free to “criticise what we’re doing.”
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“We will apologise to all those who are victims of police brutality,” Obi told his teeming supporters on Saturday during his campaign rally in Lagos State held at the Tafawa Balewa Square (TBS), Onikan.
“All those who have suffered in the hands of government, we will apologise to them. We will make sure that it never happens again. Nigeria will be a peaceful country.”
According to him, the country’s security agents will “no longer” be used for harassment.
“Police will not harass anybody; they will be your care because we’re going to train those (sic) on how to do policing,” he promised.
The LP candidate mocked the All Progressives Congress (APC) for its economic management, claiming that millions of Nigerians have been forced into poverty since the party took office in 2015.
He said that the present administration is responsible for “one type of pain or another,” including poverty, unemployment, and strikes by university professors.
According to the former governor of Anambra State, if elected, his administration will work hard to protect citizens from poverty, shift Nigeria from consumption to production, and boost the country’s reserves through agricultural and currency stability.
“No Nigerian will be ethnocentric but a Nigerian We want Nigerians to celebrate their passport.”
“Lagos will remain the centre of excellence and finance,” he said. “Nigeria has all the endowment to be a great country,” he said.