Former Governor of Anambra state,
Peter Obi, has insisted that President Muhammadu Buhari or any single
individual, is not responsible for Nigeria’s problems.
Peter Obi, former governor of
Anambra state, says it is wrong to blame President Muhammadu Buhari or any
single person for the country’s problems.
Obi stated this on Saturday in
Abakaliki, Ebonyi state capital, where he delivered a lecture on the nation’s
57th independence anniversary.
Speaking on the topic ‘Change and
changing Nigeria through harnessing of investment potentials of Ebonyi State:
yesterday, today and tomorrow’, he said it was time for Nigeria to shift its
focus to solid minerals and embrace economic diversity.
Obi said the world was moving to
an era of knowledge, while Nigeria still depends on oil “which is already
destined to finish one day”.
“Nigeria should queue into
sustainable development goals (SDG), not in signature. The country is there in
signature and it is the only country that got involved in millennium
development Gogl (MDG) and did not achieve one goal because as soon as we
signed the signature, we threw it away and came here and started doing things
wrongly,” Obi said.
“China put MDGs in their developmental
agenda, they mainstreamed it in their developmental agenda and they are
targeting to lift 16million people out of poverty but I don’t know how many
people Nigeria will lift in the next 10 years because there is no such
measurable goals, everything is done in confusion.
“Our reserve is weak today and we
are not talking about savings rather we are borrowing more.
“We are moving from baggage
economy to knowledge economy. So, the country should stop dwelling on solid
minerals because it is a baggage economy and nobody lives with it.
“This is what Nigeria is doing
and we are still talking about oil which is already destined to finish one
day.”
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Yesterday you said nothing is working under buhari and today you are saying that buhari is not our problem which one you dey????
ReplyDeleteNa so with politicians in Nigeria. Their souls are empty.
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