Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has said that Nigerians need to press the reset button for the country and elect leaders that can be held accountable.
Obi said this at an international youth conference themed ‘Seizing the moment to shape the future’ in Enugu, on Friday.
According to him, he believes Nigerians try to tackle our problems by electing the candidate who convinces us that he has the solution to all our problems only to disappoint us and we repeat the process in another four years.
Obi urged the youths to take back their country and use their constitutionally given powers to hold their leaders accountable.
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In his words, “A major problem is that we cannot predict what our leaders will actually do when in power, and we appear to have no way to force them to deliver once they are in office.
“They make promises during their campaign but they fail to deliver on them. The problem is one of accountability. We need a way to hold our leaders accountable when they are in office.
“How? If we ask ourselves, what is the greatest fear that a politician really has? The answer is: removal from office. Our politicians hold on tenaciously to power because the stakes are so high.
“Any leader who knows that he or she can be removed from office will have no choice but to listen to the people and try to deliver good government.”
