Peter Obi, a presidential aspirant on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP) and former Governor of Anambra State says it is time to create wealth rather than depend on sharing of resources as being done by politicians in the country.
Obi maintained that if he is elected president, his focus will be on wealth creation to take the country away from its present status as a nation known for a growing appetite for consumption.
Speaking in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State capital during a consultative meeting with AKwa Ibom State chapter of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Obi said the era of sharing in Nigeria politics was over as there was nothing more to share.
Obi, a former Vice Presidential aspirant explained that Nigeria needs another group of leaders to produce resources to take care of the next generation.
He listed key areas that he would tackle as education, security , power generation and manufacturing to reposition the country’s economy.
” My mission is to create wealth, change Nigeria from consumption to production and from wealth sharing to wealth creation, it is not rocket science, it can be done,” he said.
“The cake we are sharing now has finished . What we should do now is to bake more cakes .There is no more cake to share anymore. And those cakes we are going to bake are not for sharing. ”
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“We would have a new system where the teeming unemployed youths are given a future . They are going to be driving the process . So, there is no need to share . Consuming is finished , we are now talking about production.”
” The new Nigeria would be creating and producing, not the Nigeria where people are sharing money,” he said.
He mentioned inability to manage the economy and insecurity as factors that contributed to a failed state adding that the time to rescue Nigeria is now.
He urged Akwa Ibom delegates to vote with their children in mind not the personality of any candidate and ethnic consideration saying the country has all indicators of a failed state.
He highlighted the high level of unemployment which he put at 35 percent saying that thousands of people were being thrown into poverty yearly while the country was borrowing more, though he said there was nothing wrong with borrowing as an instrument for economic development.
Obi who attributed the country’s woes to “leadership failure,” stated that Nigeria has failed to invest in the critical sectors of the economy adding if given the opportunity, he “would stop the collapsing situation and begin the turn around of the nation’s fortunes.”
In his remarks, Aniekan Akpan, chairman of PDP in Akwa Ibom State said Obi and governor Udom Emmanuel who is also a presidential aspirant have the ability to rescue Nigeria adding that both would have to work together to rescue the country.
“The two of you must come together to rescue Nigeria,” adding that as delegates they would discuss to find the best way to ensure that the country has a new lease of life.
