Prof. Pat Utomi has stated that the overrating of politics by Nigeria and Nigerians will never allow the country to develop.

Speaking during a program on Monday organized under the aegis of the YALI network, Utomi said the Nigerian government needs to encourage entrepreneurs to grow its economy.

“Leaders are not people who tar roads. Any slowpoke can sign a cheque and ask Julius Berger to tar roads. Leadership is about shaping culture so that there is human progress. The kind of value you have as a country determines (your) economic performance. It is the leaders that will initiate those values.

“Everything in our country is reduced to politics. The biggest danger to Nigeria is the overrating of politics and government. I can actually prove with case studies that the government is more responsible for preventing progress in Nigeria than for making it happen. This is not because these men hate Nigeria.

“A man cannot give what he doesn’t have. They are working hard for the good of this country but systematically preventing good from taking place because of their limitations.”

Developed countries like the United States and UK prospered because they encouraged entrepreneurs to grow their economies, hes aid.

“Most countries are not making progress because they don’t have institutional arrangements; they do not make it easier for people with no money, power to emerge with their ideas that will destroy today’s dominant players.”

http://www.veenaija.com/nigeria-wont-progress-weve-reduced-everything-politics-pat-utomi/#.V4SD2jUfhQI

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SOURCE: WWW.VeeNaija.com

Any body that still believes in nigeria is joking

Seriously..... There is Big for Nigeria.......

Pat Utomi is making sense now but give him a political post first, it will then be the case of if you cant beat them you join them.

As for his analysis, only those with values would understand. Nigeria doesn't need a restructuring without reshaping the political class.

And the political class is made up of the Nigerian people. so the problem lies in the people.

If you doubt me go around Nigeria and see what most people ''struggling to make a living'' are struggling doing. Lying, Cheating, Killing, Stealing, Maiming, Taming, Wailing, Derailing. only few are working decently. But we want a country free of all these vices, how?

LoL You Never can tell, he may make a difference

mars123:
Pat Utomi is making sense now but give him a political post first, it will then be the case of if you cant beat them you join them.

It will require God's grace for Nigeria to be whole and prosperous. A country were her citizens humiliate, stone her president because of politics and a section of the country feel it's ok and applaud such acts!

AGBOKI ti take over

My Point is that this is phrase we must pass as A Nation...

Buhari caused it

You people should please stop blaming Buhari for every single thing that happened in this country......