The Labour Party
presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, has finally appeared in Cable Network
News (CNN) where he said the only way to take Nigeria out of its current economic
quagmire was to tackle insecurity head on.
Obi, while speaking in
an interview with CNN Zain Asher yesterday, said his first plan was to put
security in place for the safety of the people.
He said that with
security in place, farmers will be able to return to the farm and cultivate on
the vast arable lands the country is blessed with.
The former Anambra
State governor noted that security was impacting negatively on the economy of
the country and needs to be dealt with decisively if the country wants to rise
above poverty.
He said, “One is that
you have to deal decisively with security. It is impacting negatively on your
economy today. Because you have to get your farmers to go back to the farm, and
start ensuring that the vast land of the North is invested and cultivated on.
You have to start pulling people out of poverty as quickly as possible.”
In the course of the
interview, Asher, who described him as the most popular candidate among the
young people, asked, Nigerians are used to being disappointed by their leaders,
can all the problems of Nigeria which are corruption, oil theft, insecurity,
physically be solved by one person?
Reacting
to the question, Obi said, “If we have a leader that is competent, has the
capacity, and commitment to deal with it, no one will solve it overnight. But
there will be clear, visible, measurable attempts to deal with it. And they are
things that are solvable. There are things they can deal with decisively.”
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