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How do you respond to the comment made by Rabiu Kwakwanso that the north will not vote for an Igbo man in 2023?

Mr. Peter Obi:
"The comment by the elder brother Kwankwaso is the reason why we have 100 million Nigerians living in poverty, 18 million Nigerian children out of school and about 52% of Nigerians either unemployed or under employed , because rather than vote for competent leaders, we will rather vote for incompetence due to a primitive belief of religion and ethnicity.

Tell me, today you can’t travel from abuja to kaduna by road or rail, is it because someone from the south east is in charge ? You can’t travel to Minna by road, is because someone from the south east is in charge? Yesterday we had an attack by bandits on the presidential convoy, in Katsina, is it because someone from the south east is in charge? Show me where people are prospering in the north or south? What we have consistently done in this country is to hire vehicle drivers to fly airplanes as pilots instead of hiring qualified pilots.

We have a huge problem and if you don’t know, this country will soon default on their debt servicing, schools are shut down, insecurity is everywhere, Nigeria is in a coma and when you are in a coma all you want is to survive, irrespective of where the surgeon who will keep you alive comes from “

On fuel subsidy removal,

He added, “I’ll remove it. But I’ll have to offer them what is equivalent… Yes, because I’m going to use it to do something that will benefit (them). But if I’m not going to do that I’m not going to remove it. You must be able to offer something in replacement of what you’re trying to do.”

Speaking further, the former Anambra governor slammed President Muhammadu Buhari’s regime and former Goodluck Jonathan’s administration for wasting public funds on the subsidy.

“The most two critical engines of development are health and education, and your expenditure in education and health in the past 10 years is about $20 billion. Go and check the records and you spent $40 billion on subsidy,” he asserted.

Mr Obi suggested that Nigeria would have distributed about 20,000 megawatts of electricity if Mr Buhari’s regime and Mr Jonathan’s administration channelled half of the subsidy funds to power generation.

In January, Mr Buhari’s regime said it would enforce complete fuel subsidy removal in July, promising to provide Nigerians with a N5,000 transport allowance to cushion the adverse effects. The regime backed down following threats of nationwide protests.

Last March, the regime said it suspended the subsidy removal due to pushback from citizens and to avoid consequences in the 2023 general elections.

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