Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, has said government by the party in May 2023 would fight and wipe out  corruption in Nigeria.

He stated this in Ibadan while speaking during a visit to the Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Mahood Lekan Balogun, and his advisory council members at his Alarere palace, in Ibadan.

Obi pointed out that “by the time corruption is confronted headlong and defeated, criminality will reduce as a lot of jobless youth would be taken out of unemployment and poverty.” 

“The government to be formed by the LP come May 2023 would fight corruption because there can never be any progress under the regime where corruption remains the order of the day,” he said.

He added, “By the time corruption is confronted headlong and defeated, criminality will reduce as a lot of jobless youth would be taken out of unemployment and poverty.” 

Speaking further, the presidential candidate tasked Nigerians not to base the 2023 presidential elections on tribe, ethnicity and religion, saying, tribe, ethnicity and religion “are elite conspiracy to keep down the nation.”