••• POLITICS OF STEALING, SHARING MONEY TO SEND CHILDREN TO SCHOOLS ABROAD MUST STOP
The Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, on Tuesday, challenged all the presidential candidates vying for the office of the president of Nigeria to come out with their statistics about Nigeria.
Obi made the challenge on Tuesday, while receiving Valentine Ozigbo who decamped from the Peoples Democratic Party to the LP.
Obi and the national leadership of the LP received Ozigbo and challenged the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, his Peoples Democratic Party, counterpart , Atiku Abubakar, and other presidential candidates to come forward with the statistics about the country.
Obi irked by the attitude of his opponents and their supporters in spotting errors in his figures without presenting their own side of arguments, said he challenged them to make a statistics of the country.
LP flagbearer stressed that data and information are important during political campaigns and in governance.
“Nigeria’s total export in 2021 was N18.9trillion. When people fault my figures, I tell them and other candidates to present theirs.
“Brazil is among the five biggest producers of food globally. They have developed agriculture; they are feeding themselves and exporting.
“People asked me how do we get the Naira stronger against the Dollar. My answer remains moving Nigeria from consumption to production
“What will give dollars is production; Nigeria is not a producing country. It is not natural resources or space that will generate money; it is the production capacity of the people.” He stated.
Obi decried the country’s security situation, explaining that he had companies in Kano and regularly visits the locations.
“I used to drive to Kano, all over the country. But today, you really cannot do that because of the level of insecurity.
“We want to change that; we want to stop politics of sharing money, stealing and sending children to schools abroad”, he said.
