Democracy: Peter Obi visits Commonwealth Headquarters in London

By John Alechenu, Abuja

The Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party (LP) successful the 2023 wide election, Mr. Peter Obi, has continued his planetary consultations and engagements connected ideology and nation-building with a sojourn to the Commonwealth Headquarters successful London.

Obi, accompanied by his wife, Mrs. Margaret Obi, met with the Commonwealth Secretary-General, Hon. Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, the archetypal African pistillate to pb the 56-member planetary assemblage of English-speaking nations.

According to Obi, who shared details of the gathering via his X (formerly Twitter) grip connected Friday, discussions focused connected promoting democracy, strengthening the regularisation of law, expanding entree to education, and empowering young radical crossed Commonwealth countries.

He wrote: “On Wednesday, my woman and I met with the Commonwealth Secretary-General, Hon. Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, astatine the Commonwealth Headquarters successful London. Our discussions centred connected promoting democracy, deepening the regularisation of law, expanding entree to education, and empowering young radical crossed Commonwealth nations.”

Highlighting the value of younker successful planetary development, Obi noted that with implicit 2.5 cardinal of the Commonwealth’s colonisation nether the property of 30, young radical stay the organisation’s top plus and anticipation for the future.

He stressed that for Nigeria — a federation richly endowed with quality and earthy resources — meaningful concern successful education, innovation, and entrepreneurship is cardinal to unlocking the immense imaginable of its youth.

“When decently equipped, our young radical volition not lone thrust nationalist improvement but besides lend importantly to planetary progress,” Obi said.

He identified younker unemployment arsenic 1 of the astir pressing challenges of the time, calling for intentional and applicable enactment done skills development, entree to prime education, and the instauration of an enabling situation for tiny and medium-scale enterprises (SMEs) to thrive.

Hon. Botchwey, successful her remarks, reaffirmed that her apical priorities see education, younker engagement, and employment creation. She emphasised the value of gathering inclusive societies that uphold democracy, bully governance, justice, and adjacent accidental for all.

“Empowering young radical is not lone captious to sustaining ideology but besides indispensable to shaping a stable, peaceful, and prosperous aboriginal for each Commonwealth citizens,” she said.

Obi commended Hon. Botchwey for her dynamic and visionary leadership, describing her arsenic a trailblazer whose dedication to education, younker empowerment, and antiauthoritarian ideals continues to fortify the Commonwealth and animate nations astir the world.

The station Democracy: Peter Obi visits Commonwealth Headquarters successful London appeared archetypal connected Vanguard News.