The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has lamented that the country is currently breeding poverty, hunger and insecurity due to bad leadership.
“On June 19, 1974, Tafawa Balewa applied to the World Bank to give him $82m to build the Kainji Dam to generate power. Today, Kainji Dam is still there, it was supposed to generate 750MW. Today, the equivalent of that money is supposed to be about $1.250bn.
“Today, Nigeria owes N77 trn. If you divide it by the value of what Tafawa Balewa borrowed then, we would have had 150 Kainji Dams and Nigeria would have been exporting power to other countries today. “This is a city where someone who wanted to build a new Nigeria comes from and we are here saying that we want to build one Nigeria. A new Nigeria is possible, a Nigeria where you have jobs, a Nigeria with economic growth, a Nigeria that is peaceful, a Nigeria that is secured, that is what we want to build.”
He urged Nigerians not to vote based on ethnicity or religion, pointing out that people from all the zones of the country are currently living in hunger. Obi, who also promised to create jobs for Nigeria’s teeming unemployed youths, assured the people of Bauchi that the newly-found oil in the state would be used to develop the state.All rights reserved. This material, and other digital content on this website, may not be reproduced, published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed in whole or in part without prior express written permission from PUNCH.
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