The Vice Presidential candidate
of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the February 23 presidential election,
Mr. Peter Obi, has described as gratifying, the recent warning of All
Progressives Congress, APC, leader, Bola Ahmad Tinubu, against the removal of
Value Added Tax otherwise called VAT.
Obi said that Tinubu’s warning
which makes economic sense given the situation in the country was at variance
with that of his party and goes to underscore the uncoordinated campaign they
dished out to Nigerians.
The VP candidate said in a
statement from his media office on Sunday that the position of the PDP and the
presidential candidate which was made loud and clear during the electioneering
is that tax must be relaxed to act as incentive to investors.
Obi insisted that the right way
to go to shape up the economy given the magnitude of unemployment in the
country is to have an attractive economic policy that will be inviting to
entrepreneurs and investors.
He stated that APC’s earlier
stance of increasing tax, VAT inclusive shows the height of insensitivity of a
government that careless about the plight of the populace.
Obi said that Tinubu’s warning is
good but he should have been humble enough to credit to the opposition party
instead of making it feel as if it has been the position of the party.
“It’s extremely unrealistic for
anybody to think of growing the economy of this country, and creating jobs just
by increasing tax, it’s too a simplistic approach”, he noted.
The former Anambra State Governor
said that he hopes that Tinubu would go further also to advice his party to
embrace restructuring as that is the only option left to move this country
forward.
“Anybody thinking that this
country will work without tinkering with the political and economic structure
is deceiving himself because no nation grows on injustice”, he added.
Obi furtehr described as
unfortunate the fact that Nigeria with all her potentials is among the three
African countries according Pew Research Center Where 45% of the adult
population are desiring to leave the country.
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