TINUBU FAILED NIGERIA!”— Peter Obi Blasts APC Over Power Crisis, Says Nigerians Must Rise & Defend

Added: 2026-05-28

[00:00:00]So it is my pleasure to invite to the stage Nigeria.

[00:00:33]Thank you. Thank you.

[00:00:36]our leader.

[00:00:39]>> Our leader and my very dear brother Senator Dix, our party chairman.

[00:00:52]I will miss you because some people have missed you because you're wondering where tonight our party chairman and our very good chairman secretary and all the members of this are here recognized the senators that are here national assembly members our elder respected leader engineer.

[00:01:29]Let me stand on all you and existing protocols.

[00:01:33]Mine will be simple and very short because I have said all that it means to the stage but I need to express mine in number one 2 3 4 5. Number one for me is gratitude.

[00:01:50]Gratitude to Almighty God that made it possible for all of us together this night.

[00:01:57]Number two is gratitude to all of you who have decided to join this party within this short period of the party existence.

[00:02:15]It didn't there were a lot of things said about the party but we all decided to be members of this family be part of he did and his team so I thank you sincerely and I thank you number three for your sacrifice it is not easy for what you're doing to sacrif sacrifice for this party.

[00:02:47]Express your intention to run for election to serve your different constituencies.

[00:02:56]I know how difficult like the leader has said it is for our nation today for people to say, "Oh, we're going to be part of this process. We're going to do this."

[00:03:10]I join the leader this evening to assure you that your sacrifice will not be in vain.

[00:03:17]>> Yes.

[00:03:20]by the time we finish so many people will think oh they were not successful but I'll tell you we've taken note of everybody who expressed intention too long and it's very important I discussing this I said it's very important that we start rewarding people who have worked so hard in this country who have sacrificed And you will see it happen because this is the only way we can build a country.

[00:03:58]>> It is very very important. All of us will not succeed.

[00:04:03]All of us will not be selected. All of us will not be winners.

[00:04:10]But I assure you that it is time we start recognizing losers who have worked so hard.

[00:04:19]So please do not think that if I'm not the person that is the end of it.

[00:04:28]It is not the ending.

[00:04:33]It is the ending of the beginning because we will begin and work hard for our country.

[00:04:42]It is important at this stage that all of us sacrifice for their country and I beg you to do that faithfully.

[00:04:53]I just come back yesterday night from South Africa.

[00:04:58]You know what Nigerians are going through in South Africa and so many other African countries.

[00:05:05]And I took time to sit down with three ministers who are leaders of their own parties to plead them about how this can work within South Africa and other African nationals.

[00:05:28]And we had a very fruitful talk and everything took time to go and see people.

[00:05:35]like President Becky to thank him for standing for our people at difficult time. Took time to go around and see what our people are suffering and in the end I address Nigerians and I said to them even things working in our country the way it should be most of you will be here.

[00:06:06]We as them to come back.

[00:06:09]If you don't know, we provided facility for them to come back. But most of them told me they would rather die there than come back because it's empty. It's even worse at home.

[00:06:25]That shouldn't be Nigeria.

[00:06:29]Nigeria have played role in securing nations since second world war.

[00:06:36]We secured nations. We've been part of peacekeeping and Nigeria have commanded the United Nation peacekeeping globally and Nigerian army left general commanded the whole United Nation peacekeeping effort.

[00:06:56]In those days we doing everything in Eastern Europe and everything but today Nigeria cannot secure itself. It's unacceptable.

[00:07:07]So you're sacrificing know that you're sacrificing for the future of the country your children will live in >> to not be detained. Do not say because notated.

[00:07:22]Some of us have put everything there. We didn't say the last time we lost election. We're not going to come out again. We're not going to be part of it again. We've been going round and round the world and everything.

[00:07:37]still giving hope to Nigerians in the past few days I've had not only South Africa where Nigerians have problem they have problems in another country and I've had problems to speak to leaders in that country that say please we are their country but everything and when I go like I went to South Africa ask them what has our government have they visited you have they asked you what is happening? The answer is no.

[00:08:11]>> If your country has no care for you, who will care for you?

[00:08:15]>> Is he an outsider?

[00:08:17]And they ask me about foreign policy. I say your foreign policy become starts with your strong domestic functional economy. Cuz when you are home and you can eat well and there's employment and there's everything, they respect you outside. But when people see that they are not to eat in your house and you're coming to the house, what do you think they will do? They close the door in the he don't come here whenever I bring food to eat. Always make sure you come before after I've eaten because he knows you only come to eat cuz there's no food in Ni's house.

[00:09:06]So you must have food in your house.

[00:09:10]One of the ministers told me and he was blunt.

[00:09:15]He said to me, "If they think we are not good people, they should go back to their place.

[00:09:24]They are here because we are better than their place."

[00:09:29]>> And I hope I had a very good discussion.

[00:09:34]In the end, he said to me, "Per I wish we Africans can talk like this."

[00:09:40]I have learned that what he told me was true.

[00:09:44]But that is the situation we find ourselves and it's all over Africa not just in South Africa.

[00:09:53]Why did I say this? Your sacrifice is not in pain.

[00:09:58]Let's for once build a nation.

[00:10:01]Let's for once build a place where Nigerians will say they are. I've said it before. You heard me say it every day. Ukraine is at war. Ukraine gave Nigeria gra to fight hunger.

[00:10:20]Ukraine gave Nigeria grain to fight hunger. They at war. The entire Ukraine is about 600,000 kilometers. The entire Northern Nigeria 750 something,000 km. Northern Nigeria is at least 25% bigger than Ukraine. But they give us grain even when they're at war and we're not at war.

[00:10:48]These are things we must stop.

[00:10:50]>> Production. Production.

[00:10:52]>> We must change our country.

[00:10:56]We must change this country because a productive country.

[00:10:59]It's a country that must work for all of us. is a country that must give jobs to every Nigerian.

[00:11:06]The Nigerian youth is energetic. He wants to work. We will talk. We will campaign. We will go to everywhere and call people and come out and campaign.

[00:11:18]For those who want to rule Nigeria for the next four years, they must give us reason to vote for them.

[00:11:26]>> It's no longer going to let them don't be detered about their threat to rig election.

[00:11:32]This time our vote will count.

[00:11:39]>> Our vote will count.

[00:11:42]>> If it doesn't count, those who will count our children are not.

[00:11:53]We are the country. This country must work.

[00:11:58]>> People can no longer take us for them.

[00:12:02]I was in South Africa.

[00:12:05]>> They have over 40,000 square over 40,000 megawatt of electricity. And here people are complaining they have no power when we have 4,000 and we're not complaining.

[00:12:17]>> And they just something million and we 200 something million with 4,000 megawatt and we're not complaining.

[00:12:25]>> If you don't want to complain, this is time for us to come out and complain.

[00:12:31]If you cannot serve, please leave. We don't want to elect people again to give us excuse or remind us what they saw when they got in there.

[00:12:42]>> No, what I'm seeing I can change >> and that is why I want the office. I'm not looking for it to give excuses. We don't want to hire people who will give us excuse again.

[00:12:56]>> The time of excuse have passed.

[00:12:59]If you cannot walk in a room for people who have >> the confidence, the capacity, the compassion, commitment, and character to lead.

[00:13:15]>> If you don't have it, go home.

[00:13:20]>> That's not.

[00:13:21]>> But tonight is to beg you for your sacrifice.

[00:13:25]If they don't choose you, >> if you're not one nominated, don't feel bad, don't know that we are sacrificing.

[00:13:36]This party doesn't belong to our leader Nixon. God has used him to bring us together.

[00:13:45]This party does not belong to Peter.

[00:13:49]I said it any day, any time. And I'm happy that the man who was chairman of my party when I was governor is here I speak to me ask him as governor I did not appoint one commissioner is there they gave me the list the party gave me the list and I announced it and I told everybody I appointed if the party want you to go you go and within 6 months they remove one person they just give me I tell you say want you to go.

[00:14:24]Me and me that hired, we all hired by this party. So it is a party that will be screaming where somebody comes and close his door and said everybody come here capital >> we work properly >> cuz that's what will change the country.

[00:14:49]>> So you'll be part of it. Don't think that comes president stop thinking that is when you will see me but I always want to hear bad news and only you can tell me things that wrong it is important I know people have told don't contest there I've seen six of them here including her said her hand don't contest and they said to me thank you that's what we want now people who know that we all of us cannot be there but when we are there all of us will work >> all of us will be accommodated we will know that we have a party we have chairman we are women >> women don't don't have women if you don't know I have women as a commission as commission as when I was governor did I don't know from chief of staff to commissioner of education, finance, local government, every women >> and I believe in women >> because when they committed the work so don't worry women will accommodate you the men will accommodate your so don't lose that we going to take on women thank you for being part of what we're tonight.

[00:16:21]>> Thank you for joining this party. The rest assured my doors are open. I'm available 24 hours. It is this period has been very hectic. I go to leader leader of course when I go to his house at times I pity him and then I come back I find out the people waiting for me is one of the people in his house. I run to his house.

[00:16:45]So I said let me go and see his worst.

[00:16:48]So I just go home and find myself that everywhere is occupied but the rest that show will be available. One person believe that a child of nobody will be somebody and that is my belief.

[00:17:05]We want the child of nobody to be somebody without knowing anybody.

[00:17:10]>> But we must sacrifice for our dear country. Thank you and God bless you.

[00:17:16]Yeah.

[00:17:24]Heat.