The Labour Party flag-bearer for the 2023 Nigeria presidential election, Mr Peter Obi has pledged to increase electricity generation, address brain drain, and implement Diaspora voting, among others if elected.
Obi made the pledge on Sunday at Columbia University, New York while having a conversation on economic and government policy with Columbia’s Africa Business Club, Black Law Students Association, and the Nigerian Diaspora in New York.
“But Nigeria generates 4,000 megawatts of electricity but did not declare emergency in the power sector,’’ he said. The Presidential candidate said he would turn brain drain to brain in Nigeria, urging Nigerians in Diaspora to be investors instead of doing social welfare for people to eat and do burials.
“The Netherlands generated 120 billion dollars in agricultural export in 2021 and Nigeria has a land mass bigger than Netherlands but most states in Nigeria don’t contribute to the national purse but only take,’’ he said. On borrowing, he said there was nothing wrong about borrowing but frowned at borrowing for consumption.
In addition, he said the 2023 election would not be about right, saying, don’t vote for me because I am from the southeast. If you go to the North, it is not safer than the South.“2023 election will not be about my turn; it’s not anybody’s turn. It is not a chieftaincy title; it’s about the election. It will not be about connection,’’ he said.
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