Presidency 2023: Obi cautions PDP delegates against exchanging votes for money at convention

A presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Peter Obi, has cautioned the party’s delegates to the national convention to desist from exchanging votes for money in the election of PDP presidential candidate for the 2023 election. Obi warned that the delegates would only collect the money given by aspirants to buy their votes at the detriment of the future of their children and the country. Obi, the vice-presidential candidate of the PDP with Atiku Abubakar in the 2019 presidential election, urged the PDP delegates to think about their children’s future when voting for their preferred candidate.

Obi in an interaction with PDP delegates and other stakeholders in Akure, Ondo State, declared that he will not give money to delegates for purchase of votes, saying that he is on a mission to eradicate monetisation of politics in the country’s electoral process.

Obi told the prospective Ondo delegates that Nigerians need somebody with capacity, good behaviour and character to be a president, not just a person ability to talk and make promises. He decried that the prevailing situation in the country would consume Nigerians if people do not vote for the right person as president in 2023.

Obi had declared: “Collect the money, but when you go to vote, think about the future of your children. You are delegates today; you cannot be delegates forever. We cannot continue this way. If we do not do anything, it will consume all of us.

“Ask questions about the aspirants. Ask about where they were 15 years ago. We want people with capacity, behaviour and character to be our president.

“People now spend their revenue on feeding. Unemployment rate is on the high side. We are borrowing without investing it. The problem with Nigeria is that we are borrowing for consumption. The country is unproductive. We want to see things work.”