When you listen to us, go and check our background, we don’t want someone that will be carried in with a wheelchair – Peter Obi tells Nigerians

Presidential Candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi has admonished Nigerians to listen to the candidates and check their backgrounds as qualifications are not enough.

He said that every candidate must come and tell Nigerians his agenda to make Nigeria work.

A statement by his media adviser, Mr. Valentine Obienyem, quoted Obi as saying this while addressing people that came to welcome him to Germany on Friday.

He further stated that capacity, integrity and competence must be considered adding that Nigerians do not want someone who will be carried in a wheelchair

“When you listen to us, go and check our background, this is not a time for somebody to show us his qualifications, I live in Nigeria, and I know Nigeria and what Nigerians need. I am not a stranger to Nigerian problems,” the group quoted Obi as saying.

“I am a trader, but I have the privilege to go to some of the best of schools like Oxford, Cambridge, and other Ivy League institutions, but I always say to people that educational qualification is not the same as integrity.

“Listen to all the presidential candidates, not through proxy. Let anyone who wants to be your president come forward himself and speak to you directly because he is the one you will hold responsible for whatever happens to Nigeria under his care.

“This campaign is not a campaign you are going to speak through somebody. That person needs to come and directly tell us what he is going to do for our country, and we must take note of whatever he says and hold him by his words.

“We also don’t want one that would be carried to this place in a wheelchair, but must consider his capacity, competence, integrity and commitment.”