00:01As campaigns get underway from Nigeria's 2027 elections, opposition presidential candidate Peter Obie promises an anti-corruption drive if he
00:11gets into office.
00:13We need to cut the cost of governance. The cost of governance is totally unacceptable. There's too much waste.
00:32And fight corruption. Aggressive.
00:36January's election in Africa's most populous country are said to be defined by the economy and security.
00:41Nigeria's economy has been lagging for the past three centuries with unemployment rate ageing higher every year.
00:47Obie has focused much of his campaign on security, which he said was linked to poverty.
00:52The more you pull people out of poverty, the more you reduce criminality.
00:56And you have to look at you, ensuring that you engage and give more attention to productivity.
01:07The more productive you are, again, it helps you to pull people out of poverty because you're going to create
01:14jobs.
01:16Nigerian elections are often tainted with violence and politicians recruit thugs to intimidate opponents and voters.
01:23Peter Obie has promised to bring the police to the local level in a bit to address pressing issues on
01:29the ground.
01:31By having local state police and local government police, you're bringing policing to the level it should be.
01:39Because the local government, locally, people know the criminals around them.
01:44It's easier to manage and everything.
01:47There's nothing wrong in that.
01:49All levels of policing is very good.
01:52The 65-year-old Obie, though popular among the youth, will be coming in,
01:57is an outsider against President Bolatinobu's all-progressive Congress
02:01that controls 31 of Nigeria's 36 powerful governorships
02:05and has a far greater party infrastructure than Obie's Nigeria's Democratic Congress.
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