•••Says Nigeria Needs A Trader With Capacity To Negotiate Her Out of Current Woes
The Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi on Wednesday told some Nigerian youths about his love for trading and how he became a banker by accident.
Obi told the cheering youths that even when he was schooling at the University of Nigeria, UNN he was trading and was able to build the branch of Savannah Bank in Nsukka as a businessman/student.
He said that governance requires a gifted trader with capacity to handle effective negotiations in the interest of the country.
Obi stressed that what Nigeria requires now is a leader with the capacity to negotiate the country out of its
“Everything about governance is trading, the negotiation and all the bilateral talks with and between countries, agencies, contractors or workers are trading and governance requires a good trader who can negotiate well.
“Where we are in this country now requires a leader to negotiate us out of our problems. When I say I will negotiate with agitators, it’s from my background that you must accommodate everybody into your shop whether he is buying or not and decipher who is a customer and a passerby.
“Even in my passport it’s shown that I am a trader, but some said I should be a banker because I was the chairman of a bank but I became a banker by accident my love is in trading because in it you are equipped to face any challenges including governance.”
.
