A presidential aspirant under the Peoples Democratic Party,
Peter Obi, has stated that Nigeria is going through difficult times and
collapsing under the current regime of the President, Muhammadu Buhari.
Obi who stated this while trying to woo delegates to the
PDP’s national convention from Bauchi State at a brief meeting held at the
Command Guest House promised that if given the opportunity of being Nigeria’s
next president, he will change the trajectory and set the country on the path
of development.
“The country is going through a very difficult time now, and
it is collapsing and we must, for the future of our children, change the
trajectory of the country by ensuring that we move this country from
consumption to production, from sharing to creating.
“We must build a better place, we must change our country
because we cannot continue with this level of underdevelopment, this level of
insecurity, with this level of problems all over the place. So, we must do the
needful to ensure that in 2023, our party must have a candidate that has the
capacity, competence, commitment to build a better Nigeria,” he said.
The two-term former Anambra state governor lamented the
rising debt profile of the country since the Buhari regime came on board.
According to him, all countries of the world borrow but
others use the borrowed funds to develop and improve their countries and
people, Nigeria borrows to share and all that we require to take our country
out of poverty is to invest a lot, invest in our GDP.
He informed the delegates that he had the capacity to tackle
the security challenges bedeviling the country just as he admonished them to
think about the future of their children while voting during the convention.
“Our country today is
insecure and people ask me, ‘how are you going to tackle this issue of
insecurity?’ You can fight insecurity in two ways: firstly, you can fight
insecurity the natural way and that is making the youths have a means of
livelihood. If you don’t know where the next meal will come from, there are
tendencies that you go into criminality. So, you must pull people out of poverty
because the more you pull people out of poverty, the more you reduce
criminality.
“The second way to tackle insecurity is solving it through
men – ensure that you fund security agencies and have capable men, train,
empower and provide them with all the necessary equipment they need and this
can be done.
“When you go to vote at the convention, please, look at the
future of your children and ask yourself, ‘which kind of society do I want
these children to live in?’ Even if they give you money or buy you lunch,
collect it but when you go to vote, look at the future of your children. We
need to do things properly,” he stated.
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