\u2013 The PDP Vice Presidential candidate for the Feb. 16 general election, Mr Peter Obi, says the country\u2019s economic misfortunes will be reversed to rapid economic growth if the party is voted in.<\/p>\n
Obi gave the assurance at an interactive session with the Edo stakeholders and members of the Peoples Democratic Party in Benin on Thursday.<\/p>\n
According to him more than 40 per cent of young Nigerians are unemployed, leading to Nigeria being referred to as one of the poorest countries in the world. He also alleged that \u201cNigeria has been shut down economically, politically and socially for more than three years.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThis has resulted in hunger, insecurity, and economic instability especially in the North Eastern part of the country.\u201d According to him, the Atiku\/Obi-led government if elected will bring back foreign investors to develop the economy of the country. Obi said: \u201cthose who have closed their businesses for fear of kidnapping, banditry, insurgency as a result of government inability to provide security for the citizenry, will be encouraged to return.\u201d<\/p>\n
He reiterated that the power sector would be taken care of through policies that would make the sector to work again and contribute to the country\u2019s economic development. \u201cWe are going to treat everybody equal especially the physically challenged in the area of empowerment. \u201cWe will take the issue of the physically challenged very seriously in our incoming government and that is one of our agenda,\u201d Obi said. The PDP vice presidential candidate said that local government autonomy would work through \u201cproper restructuring and federalism.\u201d \u201cLocal government will become very free and autonomous to get its revenue directly from the federation account without state interference for rapid grassroots development.\u201d<\/p>\n
He also gave the assurance that an Atiku\/Obi ticket would ensure that \u201cincessant strike being experienced now,\u201d would be a thing of the past. Obi said that if voted in, the PDP administration would give more priority to education and health care facilities. Earlier, the Edo Chairman of PDP, Chief Dan Orbih, criticised the Federal Government \u201ctradermoni\u201d loan scheme, telling the people \u201cnot to be carried away,\u201d by it. Most of those that spoke during the meeting appealed to PDP to show \u201cfederal presence\u201d in Edo if voted into power. (NAN)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u2013 The PDP Vice Presidential candidate for the Feb. 16 general election, Mr Peter Obi, says the country\u2019s economic misfortunes will be reversed to rapid economic growth if the party is voted in. Obi gave the assurance at an interactive session with the Edo stakeholders and members of the Peoples Democratic Party in Benin on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,15],"tags":[106,314,65],"class_list":["post-3207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","tag-economy","tag-finance","tag-pdp"],"yoast_head":"\n