Peter Obi Optimistic On Building A New Nigeria, Welcomes Akpata To ADC














Peter Obi Optimistic On Building A New Nigeria, Welcomes Akpata To ADC

Iduozee Efe Paul, Benin 


The Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate in the 2023 election, Mr Peter Obi, said in Benin yesterday that a new is possible when the right people are elected as leaders.

This is as he assured that the African Democratic Congress (ADC) is totally committed to a new Nigeria despite the political move by those in power to do everything possible to stop the party.

Obi, who made the statements at the ADC secretariat in Benin where the former party governorship candidate, Olu Akpata and members of the Obidient Movement formally defected to the ADC.

Obi stated: “Let me assure all of us here, we are committed to a new Nigeria. They might do everything possible to stop us, but I assure you our commitment is total.

“We must build a country that works for everybody. It is not working for everybody today. We must build a country where nobody can be somebody without knowing anybody. It must happen here, and that is what is important.

“I was just telling somebody as I was coming to Edo this morning and somebody said to me Nigeria is So, what do you have to say about it, Peter?”

According to him, “So I decided to reply to the person by tweet. Yes, Nigeria owes $18.7 billion, and another country called Bangladesh is owing $23 billion to the same institution. But I said to the person, I will reply you by comparison.

“In 2015, 10 years ago, Bangladesh’s GDP was $195 billion with a per capita of $1,235. Today, the same country’s GDP is $490 billion with a per capita of $2,700.

“So, both their GDP and their per capita have doubled. Nigeria, in 2015, had a GDP of almost $493,000 with a per capita of $2,700. Today, Nigeria’s GDP is under $200. Its per capita is under $1,000.

“The rest is your guess. You can go and see how many people they pulled out of poverty. So, one person borrowed, invested it in the productive sector, and grew.

“Another person borrowed, invested in consumption, and collapsed. That’s why I say we must move the country from consumption to production to make a new Nigeria that is possible.

“Let us go out and fight for that new Nigeria. It will not be easy. They are not going to allow us easily. They will do everything to deter us, but we must do the future for ourselves, a future for our children, the young ones”, he stated.

Olumide Akpata opined that a new Nigeria is possible if the people voted wisely for the right candidate and political party.

Akpata added that his defection alongside his running mate in the 2024 governorship election, Alhaji Yusuf Asama Kadiri, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, members of the Obidience Movement in the State was to add value to the party.

Among party leaders, who graced the occasion include: Chief John Odigie Oyegun, the former Executive Governor of Edo, Professor Oserhiemen Osunbor, also a former governor of Edo, Roland Owie, the former chief whip of the Nigerian senate, Kenneth Odion, the Edo State chairman of the party.

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