The Vice Presidential candidate
of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Peter Obi has revealed what makes him sad
about Nigeria.
Obi said that the recent report
of over 87 million Nigerians being out of job was a sad one.
He called on the Federal
Government to take drastic measures to reduce the rate of unemployment in the
country.
According to the News Agency of
Nigeria, NAN, Obi said this while speaking with newsmen on Thursday in Abuja.
He noted that the rate of
unemployment in the country would reduce if certain areas were given adequate
support.
According to him, if the right
approach is not taken, we can have 15 million rice farmers and rice will still
be expensive in the country.
“The more people that get into
rice production, the more rice we produce and the more the price of rice goes
up.
“It shows that there is
disconnect. If we have 10 million rice farmers, the price of rice should have
been coming down.
“If they are getting it right,
the number would have been reducing, the whole approach or economic
architecture is wrong.
“There should be areas of
concentration that needs to be focused on. There are areas that you need to
sincerely support which is not happening.’’
According to him, the overall
unemployment and underemployment rate in 2014 was 24 per cent but now it is 40
per cent.
He said the rate of unemployment
was initially 12 per cent after which it moved to 18.8 per cent.
Obi urged that an aggressive
approach should be taken to turn things around for the better.
Speaking on the 2019 elections,
Obi said it would strictly focus on issues that concerns the ordinary Nigerian.
“It would be focused on issues
about the voiceless 87 million poor people that are living in Nigeria, issues
about millions of unemployed Nigerians.
“How do we start pulling those 87
million people out of poverty and how do we start ensuring that millions of
unemployed Nigerians get jobs.
“So, when you see that the
situation is worsening, you get sad. And for me, my first expression is
sadness,” he said.
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