The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi has vowed to tackle Nigeria’s multifarious challenges including oil theft, debt servicing, secessionist agitation, youth unemployment, electricity problem, insecurity, amongst others.
Obi, a former governor of Anambra State spoke on Monday when he discussed his plans at a world-leading policy institute and think-tank forum, Chatham House in the United Kingdom.
Obi said he would fight and end public corruption. “Go and check my records. It is there,” he said, adding that he is the only former governor that did not owe salaries, gratuities or any pension after he left office.
He argues that at the heart of poverty is capital formation and that one cannot talk about capital formation without savings.
“Even in the most developed world, which is why I said Japan holds highest amount of US treasury, capital formation is at the heart of poverty, without capital formation, there will be low productivity, low income and you produce poverty all over the place.
“What I was doing as governor, I was the best governor in Millennium Development Goals by the UNDP.
“I won a prize for the longest road network. I won the Gate prize on health back to back.
” You can go and see what I did in health, built from scratch teaching hospitals and everything, improve as number one in education.
“And above all, I was able to save because I believe in future generation, because we want to have proper capital formation to drive tomorrow.
” If I have opportunity in Nigeria, no matter what we do, we will do the same thing, we must save for tomorrow,” he says.
