₦airaland Forum

Kaysalas:
I already told you to go look for your types.

Kaysalas:
Stop putting words in his mouth. He never said anything about export. If he did, tell us the time stamp. You guys can defend nonsense I swear. Chai! The interview we all watched? Please, tell us the time stamp he said all these revisionist theories of yours

TheGoodJoe:
Peter Obi was a large-scale importer to Africa.

Meaning, he exported these goods from the shores of Europe.

Meaning he is highly experienced in exportation.

So, which part do you disagree with?

SmartyPants:
The earlier thread was quite unfair and misleading.

However, the question remains unanswered. It was, "how do you intend to take Nigeria from consumption to production?"

SmartyPants:
The earlier thread was quite unfair and misleading.

However, the question remains unanswered. It was, "how do you intend to take Nigeria from consumption to production?"

TheGoodJoe:

I am saying reason with common sense.

Peter Obi was one of the biggest importers to Africa. Meaning, he was a large scale exporter for decades from Europe.

That is the exportation experience he is bringing.

Kaysalas:
[quote author=TheGoodJoe post=117937379]When people say Peter Obi knows importation and not exporting, it sounds funny to me.

The things Peter Obi imported into Africa we're EXPORTED from Europe. That means he is totally grounded in exportation and knows how healthy exporting systems work.

Peter Obi was a large-scale importer to Africa.

Meaning, he exported these goods from the shores of Europe.

Meaning he is highly experienced in exportation.

So, which part do you disagree with?

Now, see why I said many of you supporting Obi, just like him are half witted?
[i]Obi imports from Europe, doesn't mean he exported the same goods from Europe. [/i]It is the manufacturers of those goods who did the Exporting while Obi did the importing of the same goods. Obi cannot export goods from Europe because he doesn't have a manufacturing company in Europe from which to do such. Stop yarning crap. It is getting really irritating

Kaysalas:
I really did wish you had that common sense, but unfortunately, you don't. So because he imports goods from Europe, he is automatically the exporter from Europe as well. Chai!

Thanksful:
Hunger is the problem. If our economy improve and people can easily get jobs and switch jobs like in developed countries. All these will stop.

Till that happens, the likes of them will continue selling themselves for a bowel of agbado.

Just look at FFK and his colleagues in APC. These are men who once swore not to have anything to do with APC.

Hunger is the most potent weapon against a person

TheGoodJoe:

By increasing demands for our goods as he did by plugging gaps in market by exporting needed goods to Africa.

These countries he imported from still import goods in large scale from countries like China and Vietnam.

These countries need raw materials too and we can feed that market.

That will make us less a consumption nation.

A BETTER NIGERIA IS POSSIBLE WITH PETER OBI.

Kaysalas:
Now, see why I said many of you supporting Obi, just like him are half witted?
Obi imports from Europe, doesn't mean he exported the same goods from Europe. It is the manufacturers of those goods who did the Exporting while Obi did the importing of the same goods. Obi cannot export goods from Europe because he doesn't have a manufacturing company in Europe from which to do such. Stop yarning crap. It is getting really irritating

TheGoodJoe:
Please, that bolde lacks logic. How can Peter Obi import something from Europe, when he was based in Europe and exporting the goods from Europe?

In Africa, we see Peter Obi as an importer.

To the Europeans, he was exporting their goods from their country. Meaning he was an exporter.

aujile:
One presidential candidate came out to shameless talk about how he will increase credit facility as solution and some morons cheered him up

Kaysalas:
Your case is irredeemable. So Obi who claimed to be a distributor is now based in Europe exporting oyinbo their goods. Wallow in your ignorance bro. Cheers

successmatters:
Nairaland is working against Peter Obi, and they are doing so very openly.

SmartyPants:
Exporting raw materials will not take us from consumption to production in any way. We will still be stuck in the cycle of exporting raw materials and importing finished goods. The only way to become a producing nation is by adding value to raw materials.

Now that is easier said than done so I want to understand the plan. Especially when PO has already said he will pursue contractionary monetary policies which will create a difficult,t environment for investors and business people.

Besides, are you answering for Peter Obi or are you referencing something he said?

If the second, please point me to the source if you don't mind.

Freethinker87:
Tonye once said he was leaving Nairaland for good. He went to Twitter and was blasting Nairaland every day, only for him to return to his vomit several months later. Amazing guy!

TheGoodJoe:
Peter Obi has interviews littered all over the internet. You can listen to them to get ideas of his plans. I can start scrolling through videos upon videos to get snippets for you. I have summarized the few I can.

Secondly, Peter Obi never said we will wxport only raw materials. He has repeatedly hammered about the production capacity of Aba and how they can perform well producing goods on mass to meet market demands.

As for raw materials, he has highlighted about Taraba and others meeting demands of raw materials.

Finally, he is a highly exporter from Europe and did it for decades. I am not speaking for Peter Obi but expanding his points.

Finito.

RexTramadol1:
This is ridiculous!


Drab response.


So, a bandit earning between a million or 3 in an operation will now go to farm for 50k


Well, he reasons like his supporters or vice versa.

SmartyPants:
The earlier thread was quite unfair and misleading.

However, the question remains unanswered. It was, "how do you intend to take Nigeria from consumption to production?"

tobaaro:
It is another high-grade level of impunity to justify criminality with a lack of work. So his argument is that providing jobs of N50k will stop Bandits who make millions per kidnap??

Crime is on the rise and we will need more than 50k jobs to stem it's rise.

It's a shame that Nigerian youths are enchanted by this man. It's our desperation due to a lack of options. Sad

RexTramadol1:
This is ridiculous!

Drab response.

So, a bandit earning between a million or 3 in an operation will now go to farm for 50k

Well, he reasons like his supporters or vice versa.

Jephyard:
Fact and truth at the same time. I was having same discuss with my dad why do old people tell lies alot in Nigeria. I was like when one get older there is nothing to be afraid of and seen it all and ready to meet his maker, so will live an honest life and leave so many mundane things behind. Instead they become worst as they age. There is a saying a foolish/Dishonest man at 20 will always be foolish/dishonest at 60, for short a liar will always be a liar no matter how high that person climb, you can't run away from yourself.

It high time we take one character very serious, it a peprequisite for good leadership. Certificate should be the least among anything if you want to employ or marry anyone. Character is build over a lifetime while certificate can be gotten anytime, anywhere inshort everywhere.

SmartyPants:
This is what I want to understand. Never have I seen him address this point. What exactly will he do that others have not done, to scale these local production efforts?

It's a really simple question.

And what does being an exporter from Europe have to do with expanding local production??

begoniaa:
From this interview, one way: by boosting and encouraging food production.

Insecurity and banditry have sent farmers away from the farms, and so we are left dealing with the attending problems of that. Weak local markets, propped by importation, high cost of food, etc.

When he deals with banditry and insecurity, more farmers are able to return to their farms and they'll produce more goods, both for our consumption and exportation.

begoniaa:
Wow. Logic in za mud. If I decided to focus on distributing Nollywood movies, does that mean Nigerians do not consume Hollywood movies in high quantity?

Abi what is hard to understand here - you don't know how numbers work? He selling manufactured goods and Nigeria being an importing nation cannot co-exist together?

If anything, he's living by his preachings. He said he's majorly a distributor of manufactured goods here in Nigeria, and that negates the fact we're overwhelmingly a consuming nation of imported goods? That does NOT mean we do not produce some (*few*) things ourselves.

If you're marketing agbo, it means others are not selling juices and imported wines? Mtcheeeewww.

SmartyPants:
Cheers, thats a good start but ultimately nowhere near the final answer.

When we deal with insecurity, we'll merely return to our normal pre-insurgency agricultural output. That is enough to feed the nation but that wont make us net producers.

How do wr get to the point where we begin to become major producers in agriculture?

It must be done by value addition not mere farming.

That will happen when we can turn a basket of tomatoes into a carton of tinned tomatoes.

So again, what is the plan for this?

TheGoodJoe:

What will he do different?

1. He will cut out lots of bottlenecks that stop people from going into production.

Insecurity
Power
Access to funds (Peter Obi's business scaled because of a loan he got without collateral from a bank in London)
Reduce unnecessary taxes that hinders production. Etc.
Open more ports and allow them import and export easily.

2. Peter Obi has first hand contacts with companies with high production capacities and has worked with them for decades.

He understands the nuts and bolts that goes from utilizing raw materials to exporting them. It is this kind of modus operandi he wants to transfer to our system.

Kaysalas:
I really did wish you had that common sense, but unfortunately, you don't. So because he imports goods from Europe, he is automatically the exporter from Europe as well. Chai!