Awosika, who revealed that she had followed Obi’s leadership traits over the years said that Nigeria needed people like him for the country to make progress. Her words: “Ladies and gentlemen, I am sure you will all agree with me that people like Chief Dr. Peter Obi, don of the soil, if given opportunity to rule this country, things will be better.”

Earlier in his convocation speech, Obi thanked Awosika for her massive investment in education. Speaking directly to the new graduates, Obi charged them to look up to the likes of the founders of Google, Amazon, Microsoft, among others, for inspiration and challenge.

Further, Obi, Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, during the 2019 elections, told them that with implicit confidence in themselves, that the sky would not even limit their achievements.

Describing the present Nigerian leaders, including himself, as failures, he charged the new graduates not to repose so much faith in the current leaders but in themselves as possible routes towards the discovery of a new Nigeria.