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E tok dem for public, dem get date, and every one get link go wia e tok am.
“I am a public figure. If you choose to be a public figure, you must answer all questions.”
As e gree, for di start of di interview, sey e go take every question · Sẹptẹ́mba 2026 · Arise News, presidential series interview
“We will build a country where a child of nobody can be somebody without knowing anybody.”
Dem ask am wetin e dey offer Nigerians · Sẹptẹ́mba 2026 · Arise News, presidential series interview
“I am the one that is elected. I will be answerable to the people, and for every penny I will be answerable to the people.”
On who go answer for public money · Sẹptẹ́mba 2026 · Arise News, presidential series interview
“I might not do it all over Nigeria, but I can tell you I will visit every state at least once in a year.”
On being on ground for di kontri as president · Sẹptẹ́mba 2026 · Arise News, presidential series interview
“There is no community in Anambra I did not physically visit as governor. It is not government by proxy.”
On how e wan take rule · Sẹptẹ́mba 2026 · Arise News, presidential series interview
“A Nigerian president must spend his vacation in Nigeria. I will visit other countries, but I will not take my holidays in other countries.”
On presidents wey dey go holiday abroad · Sẹptẹ́mba 2026 · Arise News, presidential series interview
“We must build a future based on love, not on hatred.”
Dem ask am wetin e go tok to northerner wey never forgive di East for 1966 · Sẹptẹ́mba 2026 · Arise News, presidential series interview
“Those who dwell on yesterday and today will miss tomorrow. Tomorrow is the only future we have.”
On leaving 2023 behind · Sẹptẹ́mba 2026 · Arise News, presidential series interview
“I will not stay a day longer. You don't need a hundred years to start a journey in the right direction.”
On serving one term only · Sẹptẹ́mba 2026 · Arise News, presidential series interview
“If I serve this country, I will serve with the team. I will respect the team. I will listen to the team.”
Dem ask am whether na im alone go decide on alliance · Sẹptẹ́mba 2026 · Arise News, presidential series interview
“The ones suffering are those being used to stop me, not those who are stopping me. These are Nigerians. I want them to live in a better country.”
On di convoy wey dem block from reaching victims of one terrorist attack for Bayelsa · Sẹptẹ́mba 2026 · Arise News, presidential series interview
“Nigeria cannot import its way to prosperity. We will produce more of what we consume, process more of what we produce, and compete more effectively in global markets.”
Campaign launch, Onitsha · Ọgọst 2026 · Leadership
“Our march to a New Nigeria cannot be halted. A detour, yes, but the destination is certain.”
On di Lokoja court order against di NDC · Jun 2026 · Vanguard
“Education is the most critical investment you can make.”
Donation to Kubwa Anglican school and hospital, Abuja · Mee 2025 · Vanguard
“Shift emphasis from consumption to production.”
Chatham House, London · Jénúári 2023 · Labour Party, full text
“The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership.”
Chatham House, London · Jénúári 2023 · Labour Party, full text
“Turn our youth bulge into a demographic dividend, rather than today's harvest of a time bomb.”
Chatham House, London · Jénúári 2023 · Labour Party, full text
“A new Nigeria is POssible.”
Im sign-off for X, and di title of di 2022 manifesto · Disẹ́mba 2022 · X, @PeterObi
“Go and verify my background. If you find any criminal activity linked to me or any member of my family, I will immediately stop campaigning to be your President.”
For campaign trail, 2022 · Ọktóba 2022 · Political Economist
“It is not the turn of anyone to become the President of Nigeria. It is the turn of Nigerians to reclaim their country.”
As e dey answer di phrase emi lo kan for di 2022 campaign · Sẹptẹ́mba 2022 · Vanguard, As tough as nails (2)
“Life is not about ownership of millions or billions, but about what did you do to add value. I just make money, save what I can, use what I need and give out the rest.”
Interview, ThisDay · Fẹ́búári 2020 · ThisDay
“My job is not to make people happy. Mine is to make good decisions.”
The Platform, Lagos · Ọktóba 2016 · BellaNaija
“You have no country but this one. No one can build it for you.”
The Platform, Lagos · Ọktóba 2016 · BellaNaija