The vice presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Peter Obi, yesterday said his principal, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, would prioritise security, national unity, education and job creation, if elected president of Nigeria, saying the country is broken, that another four years of the All Progressives Congress (APC) is beyond contemplation of any right thinking Nigerian.

Obi, who was also a former governor of Anambra State, spoke on ARISE News, a sister broadcast station of THISDAY and said never in the history of Nigeria has the country been so divided, adding that since the APC took power, six Nigerians attain poverty every minute.


According to him, “This year alone, between January and September, over four million people lost their jobs. Every minute, six Nigerians are being pushed into poverty. Go to the market now, there is no demand. People don’t have money to do anything.”

While explaining some of the priority areas that the Atiku/Obi presidency would tackle, he said security was most critical and the Atiku presidency would do everything possible to restore security to the country.

He stated, “The country is so divided that you can’t imagine it, along tribal lines, religious lines between Muslims and Christians; an Atiku presidency will unite the country. Everybody knows that Atiku has friends in every part of the country, even in his own personal team, his friends are from everywhere.”

He spoke about the primacy of education in national development and said Nigeria under Atiku’s watch would pay special attention to the sector.

Obi said, “Atiku presidency will deal with the issue of education, which is the most critical investment any nation can do. The more educated the people are, the better the development of the society.

“Atiku as a person built a primary school, a secondary school, a university and he was not doing them for money. If he was doing them for money, he had the opportunity to build them in Abuja or Lagos, while he was the vice president. That’s when he built those schools, but he built them in Adamawa.”

Obi regretted the country’s debt burden and carpeted the APC-led administration for not curbing the trend, explaining, however, while he was not against borrowing, there must be a purpose for it, and that this must be explained to Nigerians.

According to him, “On May 1, 2017 I said the country’s debt was too high. The debt keeps getting worse. Everybody was busy playing politics. The Minister of Finance then questioned this revelation. I said, ‘Minister, I have managed money all my life.’ Most of the people contesting today, I have managed money more than they have managed money as a business man. I know when things go wrong. Because I wasn’t a famous economist, no one listened to me. Today, IMF, World Bank has said the same thing.

“We are using almost 60 per cent of our revenue to service debts. We are borrowing more. The Nigerian financial system, National Assembly, everybody is flying to London for a road show to borrow more money. This is what we should be discussing, what is this money going to be used for? Not discussing whether Peter Obi comes from Anambra or Imo.”

The vice presidential candidate commented on the ongoing conversation on minimum wage and said while he wasn’t speaking for the presidential candidate or the party, he said there was need to sit down with labour, look at the income of the nation and the various states and determine the appropriate figure.

“Personally, I do not believe that somebody from Lagos should pay same thing with somebody from Ebonyi State. If you go all over the globe, there is no place where two states pay the same salary even America that we always cite as example,” he said.

Reacting to a statement credited to the governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai that there is no single thinking brain left in the PDP, he mocked the Kaduna governor, saying, “All the good brains are in the APC and yet the country isn’t working.”

He stated, “Well, all the good brains are in APC, but the country is not working. The good brains are in APC, yet the country is collapsing. That’s all I can say. When APC came, this country was growing at six per cent, since they came, look at where we are! Everything has headed south, not one item is positive.”

The vice presidential candidate stressed that in 2015, APC came to campaign with a bundle of lies and presently, instead of the ruling party telling Nigerians if they had been able to fulfill their promises, they were spinning more lies.

Obi said what the PDP was concerned with now was to bring the country back to where it used to be.

On the search on Atiku by the security agencies, he said that the opposition leaders were not only targeted and persecuted, but the ruling party was turning the whole thing into childish affair.

https://www.akelicious.net/2018/11/obi-lists-atikus-priorities-says.html

Anything that has to do with Atiku is fraudulent and entrenched in massive fraud.

Before PDP's primaries, the claim by Atiku and his camp was that he had more than 50,000 persons in his employment. We asked for the breakdown of where these people are employed but no answer was given (btw, his total employees are less than 5,000 including his university, Intels and Faro water). Fast forward to a couple of weeks back during the debate of national minimum wage, Atiku was reported to have approved N33,000 minimum wage for 100,000 employees in his employment. So, his 50,000 workers have grown to 100,000 in just a little over one month?

If Atiku in one month could create more than 50,000 ghost workers to deceive some gullible Nigerians (the Atikulooted ones), imagine how many of such ghost workers he will create in four years!.

If the fraud could convert Nigerian assets to his personal assets as VP, atrocities he will commit as a president for selfish end are better imagined. Nigeria under his watch will be paying him billions of naira in monthly wages for ghost workers that never exist.

Useless fraudulent kleptomaniac

Yes APC lied in 2015, but PDP too is a failure. The revolution several Nigerians have been yearning for is in the horizon, for the country to work, we need a change from the old.

sure in Atiku/obi we stand


don't mind that good for nothing almajiri at FTC , he has been keeping vigil to make that useless comment BC of #5 per post

like for me and share for him

I don't know why
I just like this man

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Our next Vice President, Peter Obi


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Nemesis001:


This gibberish you wrote is already stale, get something fresh that is if you even have the capacity to construct something reasonable o.


You are not paid 30k to regurgitate trash na. Haba! Think joor.

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Atikulooted brain can't even counter my point.

Was Nigeria ever disunited, I am yet to see any hopeless tribe make noise of division or succession except the Igbos which as always been on that mantra since they orchestrated the first coup in Nigeria. How that is Buhari’s fault, I do not know.

Nemesis001:


This gibberish you wrote is already stale, get something fresh that is if you even have the capacity to construct something reasonable o.


You are not paid 30k to regurgitate trash na. Haba! Think joor.

You even had the time to reply the lifeless thing

"that another four years of the All Progressives Congress (APC) is beyond contemplation of any right thinking Nigerian"

Yankee101:
Our next Vice President, Peter Obi

kikiki una no want biafra again? If they nack obituary for ground in a couple of months to come, u guys will suddenly remember una biafra anthem

Operation back to daura is a must.

Ericnrm:


You even had the time to reply the lifeless thing

APC ZOMBIES WOULD SOON START THEIR DAILY PRAISE AND WORSHIP SESSION TO THEIR MASTER AND LORD MUHAMMADU "JUBRIN" BUHARI

Ericnrm:


You even had the time to reply the lifeless thing

I thought a little pint of sense should have been added to the brain of the idiat, alas I was on a long thing.


Are you sure these people are still in control of their senses

Nemesis001:


I thought a little pint of sense should have been added to the brain of the idiat, alas I was on a long thing.


Are you sure these people are still in control of their senses

I HONESTLY FEEL SORRY FOR THEM

THEY ARE JUST WORKING FOR THEIR DAILY BREAD

BUT THAT WILL NOT STOP US FROM SENDING THE DULLARD BACK TO DAURA BY WHEELBARROW

what Peter just said is the obvious truth and devoid of any name calling.
I just hope APC will be this decent while presenting their hard facts.

please vote candidates for their abilities and not their political parties.

The first person to comment on this thread, is failed project in human form.

Nemesis001:


There is nothing to counter on a post that is devoid of reasoning. You were only shouting 'Atiku Atiku' upadan like he is your daddy.


Your thinking faculty should have translated the statement : "100,000 direct and INDIRECT jobs" but no you don't even have anything to do the translation.


You sleep and wake up on Nairaland to support a failed and lifeless man. Your children will surely know about this.

Atikulooted brain, so Atiku will count indirect jobs as part of those on his employment? And the fraud can really determine the minimum wage of those "indirect employees"?

Why are you guys gullibility this legendary? Who made you guys into dull things?

According to him, “On May 1, 2017 I said the country’s debt was too high. The debt keeps getting worse. Everybody was busy playing politics. The Minister of Finance then questioned this revelation. I said, ‘Minister, I have managed money all my life.’ Most of the people contesting today, I have managed money more than they have managed money as a business man. I know when things go wrong. Because I wasn’t a famous economist, no one listened to me. Today, IMF, World Bank has said the same thing.

Reacting to a statement credited to the governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai that there is no single thinking brain left in the PDP, he mocked the Kaduna governor, saying, “All the good brains are in the APC and yet the country isn’t working.”

He knows his onions....

Kastonkastroll:
kikiki una no want biafra again? If they nack obituary for ground in a couple of months to come, u guys will suddenly remember una biafra anthem

I think Biafra is more a drive towards equity and justice than separation.

The United States is steadily building its population by letting in the best and the brightest. From 200m+ a decade ago to 300m+.

This was not achieved via childbirth mostly but conscious immigration. The advantage of an internal large market is being used by China today to soften the US tariffs.

In a Federation, every State is semi- independent. It has its own revenue stream, police, tiers of government and control of most resources (not all). I think that is just the dream of the Igbo. To be treated as equals and to control own resources within the limits of a Federating Unit.

Nigeria was only able to beat South Africa in GDP not because of quality assets but simply by a game of numbers. 50m+ people vs 180m+ people. Do the maths.

Reacting to a statement credited to the governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai that there is no single thinking brain left in the PDP, he mocked the Kaduna governor, saying, “All the good brains are in the APC and yet the country isn’t working.”

He stated, “Well, all the good brains are in APC, but the country is not working. The good brains are in APC, yet the country is collapsing. That’s all I can say. When APC came, this country was growing at six per cent, since they came, look at where we are! Everything has headed south, not one item is positive.”




Chayi..see finishing...

PassingShot:

Atikulooted brain, so Atiku will count indirect jobs as part of those on his employment? And the fraud can really determine the minimum wage of those "indirect employees"?

Why are you guys gullibility this legendary? Who made you guys into dull things?

Your are a stark illiterate bros.


Go ahead and continue sai barbara

Truly we need that unity

Obigot the ipob sponsor and number hater of yoruba amala party people is talking about unity.


Now the same ediots that were shouting biafra or death and abusing everyone are the ones begging for unity.

Ok