Present Your Figures, Stop Picking Holes In Mine, Obi Slams Oppositions

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, on Tuesday warned other 2023 flagbearers and their supporters to stop finding fault in his statistics about Nigeria.

Obi told his oppositions to present their own facts, stressing that data is important in political scenes.

The former Anambra governor said this when he and the national leadership of LP received Valentine Ozigbo.

The new LP member was the Peoples Democratic Party candidate in the 2021 Anambra governorship election.

“Nigeria’s total export in 2021 was N18.9trillion. When people fault my figures, I tell them and other candidates to present theirs.

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“Brazil is among the five biggest producers of food globally. They have developed agriculture; they are feeding themselves and exporting.

“People asked me how do we get the naira strong against the dollar. My answer remains moving Nigeria from consumption to production.

“What will give dollars is production, Nigeria is not a producing country. It is not natural resources or space that will generate money, it is the production capacity of the people.”

Obi further lamented Nigeria’s security challenges, disclosing that he had companies in Kano and regularly visited the locations.

“I used to drive to Kano, all over the country. But today, you really cannot do that because of the level of insecurity.

“We want to change that; we want to stop politics of sharing money, stealing and sending children to schools abroad”, he said.