“I Want To Take Nigeria Away From Sharing To Creating, From Consumption To Production” – Peter Obi
The former governor of Anambra State, who is also one of the presidential aspirants of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in the 2023 presidential election, Dr Peter Gregory Obi.
Says, he wants to move Nigeria away from being a sharing nation to being creative, and from consumption to being a producing nation if he becomes the president of the country in 2023.
Obi made the promise on Friday 13th May 2022 at the Transcorp Hotel Calabar, the state capital during his one day visit to the Cross River state PDP stakeholders and the delegates to canvas support in the party primaries, scheduled for 28th and 29th May respectively.
His words, “You can’t talk about infrastructural development when you do not have human capital development, the same thing as, you can’t build infrastructure when have not to build human capital. If you have invested in human infrastructure then physical infrastructure would follow. Therefore, my message here is simple, push Nigeria away from sharing to creating, from consumption to production, then we will move forward, we would also move it from poverty” that is my task. Dr Obi said.
Earlier in his remarks, the state PDP chairman Barr Venatious Ikem thanked the former governor Peter Obi for making up his decision to rescue Nigeria from the current state of total collapse.
He said, “I know the move our Brother Excellency Obi is making, everywhere he goes he making a way for PDP. Your Excellency we wish you well, we sincerely wish you well and we believe that if you are made the president Nigeria would be out of the woods. We promise we will give you the needed support” the chairman promised.
Many stakeholders of the party, delegates and party faithful were also present at the event.
