Mr Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour
Party, has noted that bad leadership in the country is currently breeding
poverty, hunger and insecurity.
He stated this at his presidential campaign rally on
Thursday in Bauchi, saying the country only enjoyed justice, peace and fairness
through the efforts of former Prime Ministers, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa and
Nnamdi Azikiwe during their leadership.
Claiming that Nigeria would be different under his
leadership, Obi lamented the country’s huge debt burden.
He said, ”whenever I am in Bauchi, it reminds me that there
was once a united and peaceful Nigeria, that Nigeria was on the path of
greatness from a revered leader from Bauchi and that is Tafawa Balewa.
“Nigeria is breeding poverty, people are poor in Nigeria,
people are hungry, people are insecure. All the money that we have borrowed, if
we had used it the way Tafawa Balewa used the money he borrowed, Nigeria would
have been heaven today.”
The presidential candidate recalled that on June 19, 1974,
Tafawa Balewa applied to the World Bank to give him $82 million to build the
Kainji Dam to generate power and today, Kainji Dam is still there, it was
supposed to generate 750 megawatts, pointing out that the equivalent of that
money is supposed to be about $1.250 billion but Nigeria is owing N77 trillion.
If you divide it by the value of what Tafawa Balewa borrowed
then, Nigerians would have had 150 Kainji Dams and Nigeria would have been
exporting power to other countries today.
The Presidential candidate said he believes that a new
Nigeria is possible, where people have jobs, and economic growth, are peaceful
and secure.
He advised Nigerian to vote for credible candidates in the
forthcoming general elections and not to vote based on ethnicity or religion,
as people from all the zones of the country were currently living in hunger.
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