As President, I Will Discuss With Every Agitator – Peter Obi

Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s (LP) nominee for president, has stated that if he wins the election on February 25, he will talk to all country protesters.

He made this statement on Sunday during The Peoples Townhall, a live program hosted by Channels Television and its affiliates.

“We are in a democratic dispensation; you govern by discussing, you govern by consensus. So, I will sit down and discuss with every agitator without exception of name. We must use carrot and stick (approach),” he said.

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“I will discuss with those who want to discuss. You have to look at what is causing agitations today; it is issues of injustice, issues of where there is no fairness, issues to do with poverty, unemployment.

“When you start to address these issues and you engage them in discussions and you start bringing them to the table, no agitator anywhere in the world will see reason that things are going the way they ought to and will continue to agitate because they are agitating for something.”

The former governor of Anambra State, who maintains that dialogue is the best way to put an end to agitations, asserted that no agitator anywhere in the world would continue to protest if they saw that things were going as they ought to or if they were given convincing justifications for the government’s actions.

The LP candidate insisted that agitation is normal in democracies, pointing out that even at home, kids become upset, but when their parents sit them down and explain things, they start to see sense and eventually come around.

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If the government continues to practice what he called injustice, unfairness, poverty, unemployment, and young people not knowing where their next meal will come from, he claimed that Nigeria will remain in crisis.

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