A Presidential aspirant under the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Peter Obi has decried the poverty rate in Nigeria which according to him, far higher than that of China and India with populations of over 2.8 billion people combined.
Obi, who was in Enugu to consult with state Executive members of the party, lamented that more than fifty percent of young Nigerians who are of production age are doing nothing.
The former governor of Anambra State who noted that natural security is when human beings know where their next meal will come from, told party stakeholders in Enugu State that he will rescue Nigeria from its present economic woes if given an opportunity to lead the country.
Reacting to the dwindling economic fortunes of Nigeria, the presidential hopeful blamed it on poor civilian leadership that has been at the helm of affairs of the country since 1999 till date.
Obi also decried the current country’s debt burden, adding that if nothing urgent was done to change the status quo, the current leaders would plunge the nation into more debt.
He asserted that the best way to save Nigeria from the current economic woes was to shoot up the production sector by ensuring that all borrowings are channeled into the productive sector.
Speaking on the incessant killings across the country, Obi said if given the opportunity to lead he would curtail it to pave way for the production sector to thrive, noting that food security would be one of the top priorities of his administration
“The problem of Nigeria is leadership. The cumulative effect of the failure of our leadership in the past decades is what we are suffering from now. So we just have to do things right. Countries don’t fail overnight.
“We even borrow to service debts. What we are sharing is finished. We need wealth creators. We need to move Nigeria from a consumptive nation into a productive nation," he stressed.
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