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Nigeria Is A Failed Country — Peter Obi by Voice22: 1:41pm On Aug 24, 2022
Nigeria is a failed country — Peter Obi

A former governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, has said that Nigeria has failed as a country.

Mr. Obi stated this in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, on Saturday during the 2017 Independence anniversary lecture at the Akanu- Ibiam International Conference Centre where he was a guest lecturer.

The former governor spoke on the topic “Change and changing Nigeria through harnessing of investment potentials of Ebonyi state: yesterday, today and tomorrow”.

He expressed regret that the country was still operating in the past with no qualified leadership to revitalise the economy.

He blamed the country’s situation on the “cumulative leadership failure” from independence in 1960.

Agitations

Mr. Obi said more Nigerians are bound to agitate except the leadership challenges of the country are addressed.

He said the recent agitations by the Indigenous People on of Biafra and other groups indicate that more of such would be coming.

“Whenever they talk about Nigeria at 57, I refuse to talk. My opinion is that Nigeria is a failed country, period. And that is why you are seeing so many agitations you are seeing today. The agitation is not ending, it’s just beginning,” he said.

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“It is a cumulative effect of leadership failure over the several years of this country and you can’t stop it because you now have millions of young people in their productive age doing nothing, you can call them anything.”

He spoke on the need to create jobs for the teeming unemployed youth so as to stop them from further agitation.

“If you don’t have a job and you have not eaten food in the morning, afternoon and night, tomorrow you are a potential terrorist, quote me anywhere. The only way to stop that is to give them jobs,” he said.

“We are moving from baggage economy to knowledge economy. So, the country should stop dwelling on solid minerals because it is a baggage economy and nobody lives with it. This is what Nigeria is doing and we are still talking about oil which is already destined to finish one day,” Mr. Obi stated.

He called on the government to ensure that the Sustainable Development Goals are mainstreamed in the development agenda of the country.

“Nigeria should queue into Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), not in signature. The country is there in signature and it is the only country that got involved in Millennium Development Goal (MDG) and did not achieve one goal because as soon as we signed the signature, we threw it away and came here and started doing things wrongly.

“China put MDGs in their developmental agenda, they mainstreamed it in their developmental agenda and they are targeting to lift 16million people out of poverty but I don’t know how many people Nigeria will lift in the next 10 years because there is no such measurable goals, everything is done in confusion,” he said.

“Our reserve is weak today and we are not talking about savings rather we are borrowing more. In 2007, all our debts were written off and we didn’t owe anybody. But in 2017, we have accumulated a debt of $69 billion and nobody is thinking how do we get over this because what we are doing is based on nothing. We just borrow money and share,” Mr. Obi stated.
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Re: Nigeria Is A Failed Country — Peter Obi by Nobody: 1:41pm On Aug 24, 2022
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Re: Nigeria Is A Failed Country — Peter Obi by NaijaRoyalty(m): 1:42pm On Aug 24, 2022
Every sector of the economy is in total collapse under the leadership of President muhammadu Buhari

Obi is right

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Re: Nigeria Is A Failed Country — Peter Obi by Moh247: 1:43pm On Aug 24, 2022
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Anambra is now Dubai thanks to Him Tu lie Obi


The Ipobian president thinks he can fool Nigerians


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Re: Nigeria Is A Failed Country — Peter Obi by Softmirror: 1:44pm On Aug 24, 2022
Moh247:
Anambra is now Dubai thanks to Him Tu lie Obi

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.PETER OBI NA ERROR RAISED TO THE POWER MISTAKE

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Re: Nigeria Is A Failed Country — Peter Obi by Xhurskid: 1:45pm On Aug 24, 2022
Moh247:
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Anambra is now Dubai thanks to Him Tu lie Obi


The Ipobian president thinks he can fool Nigerians


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I wonder oooo my brother

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Re: Nigeria Is A Failed Country — Peter Obi by PresidObi: 1:45pm On Aug 24, 2022
Truer words, has never been spoken.

Thank you Peter Obi, for pulling their heads out of the sand.

Re: Nigeria Is A Failed Country — Peter Obi by Naijanascam: 1:59pm On Aug 24, 2022
Moh247:
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Anambra is now Dubai thanks to Him Tu lie Obi


The Ipobian president thinks he can fool Nigerians


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Senior Abobaku with smelly mouth.......... and irigbaji community in Boripe LGA of Osun State is the best village in africa
Re: Nigeria Is A Failed Country — Peter Obi by NwaMamaIwota(f): 2:38pm On Aug 24, 2022
Moh247:
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Anambra is now Dubai thanks to Him Tu lie Obi


The Ipobian president thinks he can fool Nigerians


.
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Re: Nigeria Is A Failed Country — Peter Obi by Moh247: 3:14pm On Aug 24, 2022
NwaMamaIwota:
Moh247 I'm back kiss

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You shouldn't be wasting your support on Obi that can't win

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