{"id":70740,"date":"2022-08-23T15:52:57","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T14:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/nigeria-elections-peter-obi-dares-other-2023-presidential-candidates"},"modified":"2022-08-23T17:09:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T16:09:22","slug":"nigeria-elections-peter-obi-dares-other-2023-presidential-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/nigeria-elections-peter-obi-dares-other-2023-presidential-candidates","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria elections: Peter Obi dares other 2023 presidential candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi has dared other 2023 flagbearers who fault his statistics about Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>The former Anambra governor spoke on Tuesday when he and the national leadership of the LP received Valentine Ozigbo.<\/p>\n<p>Ozigbo, a business mogul, was the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the 2021 Anambra governorship election.<\/p>\n<p>Obi accused opponents and their supporters of picking holes in his figures without presenting their own side of arguments.<\/p>\n<p>The ex-bank chief insists that data and information are important during political campaigns and in governance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNigeria\u2019s total export in 2021 was N18.9trillion. When people fault my figures, I tell them and other candidates to present theirs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBrazil is among the five biggest producers of food globally. They have developed agriculture, they are feeding themselves and exporting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople asked me how do we get the naira strong against the dollar. My answer remains moving Nigeria from consumption to production.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Obi further lamented Nigeria\u2019s security challenges, disclosing that he had companies in Kano and regularly visited the locations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI used to drive to Kano, all over the country. But today, you really cannot do that because of the level of insecurity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to change that; we want to stop politics of sharing money, stealing and sending children to schools abroad\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi has dared other 2023 flagbearers who fault his statistics about Nigeria. The former Anambra governor spoke on Tuesday when he and the national leadership of the LP received Valentine Ozigbo. 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