The Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr Peter Obi, has expressed displeasure at the volume of people stranded in poverty in Nigeria.
According to him, no fewer than 100 million people are poor.
This, he said, was not acceptable, noting that it was a s a result of misrule.
He said this on Sunday in Owerri on Saturday at the Jamie Pajoel International (JPI) annual leadership conference.
Obi identified poor electricity supply as one of the major problems.
He said: “If Nigeria can generate 20,000 megawatt of power, the country’s economy will transform within a shot period of time.
“Nigeria has borrowed 500 million dollars in the last 20 years, if Nigeria had spent five per cent of the money borrowed so far on entrepreneur and power generation, the country would compete with advanced countries,” he said.
The presidential candidate noted that 100 million Nigerians were currently living in poverty amidst the nation’s huge resources.
He said Nigeria had all it took to be a great nation, adding that the country’s greatest setback was bad leadership, corruption and poor policy implications.
“Our leaders have continued to talk about poor revenue, today we have 100 million Nigerians living in poverty and yet our leaders have not found solution to our problems,” he said.
Obi however, advised Nigerians to remain steadfast and always be ready to contribute meaningfully to the growth of the nation.
Also at the conference awere scholar and entrepreneur, Prof. Pat Utomi; Dr Linus Okorie, Chief Executive Officer, CONE Leadership Centre; Mr Jamie Pajoel, convener of the conference and founder Legislative Leadership Education, said the conference was the conference were the Chief Executive Officer, NIPAL Consulting Network, Dr Chris Asoluka, Dr Linda Iheme, CEO Vantage Migration and Ndidi Anike Chairperson FIDA Imo branch.
Others were Dr Chinwe Muomalu, Dr Odema Oreofe, founder Maximum Living International and Nnadi Austin, country Director, Doctors Save A Director Foundation among others.
