The four leading candidates in the 2023 presidential election hope to approach constraints in economic growth differently.
of the New Nigeria Peoples Party has a three-pronged economic agendum centring on long-term sustainable investment, job creation and emergency economic revamp:Atiku led the privatisation programme of the Olusegun Obasanjo administration from 1999 to 2007 during which several state assets were sold to individuals and privately owned companies in a push to curb the government’s ownership of corporations.
He said he would ramp up power generation to 25,000 megawatts, create 3 million jobs every year, lift 10 million people out of poverty every year and increase Nigeria’s oil refining capacity to 2 million barrels. Entrepreneurs desiring to develop expertise in manufacturing such goods including technology exports will be incentivised with funding, according to Mr Obi’s manifesto.
One of Mr Obi’s ideas is to venture into a new revenue source he calls “The Blue Economy.” The scheme has at its heart harnessing marine resources for economic development, especially its potential for marine biotechnology, bio-processing, renewable energy and the extractive industry. “We shall establish a Green Army tasked with identifying all opportunities to tap into the 3 trillion dollars international climate finance to engineer economic growth and employment for millions of our youths and transition our country to the green epoch,” the document says.
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