Nigeria Needs President That Can Fix Security, Economic Problems Not Concensus Candidate ― Peter Obi

Nigeria Needs President That Can Fix Security, Economic Problems Not Concensus Candidate ― Peter Obi

A presidential aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and former governor of Anambra State, Mr Peter Obi, on Sunday, maintained that what the country needed at this particular period is somebody who can turn around the economy of the country and not consensus candidate

Obi who stated this while meeting with the PDP delegates in Akure, Ondo State capital, said Nigerians should be looking forward to producing somebody capable of turning around the economy of the nation by pulling the nation out of poverty.

He said: “Nigerians want consensus on who will solve the problem of Nigeria. Somebody who can move this country from consumption to production. We are talking about somebody who will do the work.

“We are not talking of who will be the next President of the country but who will start working for this country called Nigeria. Nigerians did not need a consensus candidate but a problem solver that can fix Nigeria.

“Nigerians were looking forward to having somebody capable of making the nation productive and pulling the country out of poverty.

Obi who lamented over spates of killings, kidnappings, banditry and level of poverty in the country, said Nigerians are suffering and needed urgent solutions to attention to save the situation.

He said: “Nigeria is its darkest days. The country is collapsing and the only thing we are hearing is kidnapping, banditry poverty. Schools are shut down, killings everywhere and this is the cumulative effect of the bad leadership.

“Our economy has crumbled and we keep borrowing without investing. Borrowing for consumption without investing a dime. Our debt is growing and nothing to show for it.

“Nigerians are looking forward to somebody that can make Nigeria productive and start getting Nigerians to be pulled out of poverty.

“Look at our roads, the Akure /Ekiti road is there and they claimed they are borrowing for infrastructure. With just N5b, the road will be fixed, but all these money they are borrowing is for consumption. The only thing you hear is sharing formula not production formula

“The first of our problems is the economy, the second is the economy and the third is the economy. Anybody who can get the economy of Nigeria right is the right person for the present job and all we need is the best and right person for now”

He, however, said PDP is blessed with men who can work and change the fortune of the country and rescue the country from its present situation but solicited the delegates’ support in the party’s primary.

“PDP has an array of candidates who are qualified and competent and everything. We have arrays of stars contesting on the PDP platform. They will perform more outstandingly than Buhari and any of the APC candidates.

“People will give you money, take it, but when you want to vote think of the future of your children. Now is the time to take the step, if we don’t take the step now, it will consume all of us.”