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Peter Obi : I Would’ve Borrowed Money To Defend The Naira! (video) - Politics (6) - Nairaland

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Re: Peter Obi : I Would’ve Borrowed Money To Defend The Naira! (video) by DeLaRue:
Interviews like these that give us a valuable insight into the ineptitude of politicians is great.

Mr Obi doesn't have what it takes.
Re: Peter Obi : I Would’ve Borrowed Money To Defend The Naira! (video) by ayindejimmy(m):
mrvitalis:
Everyone knows that's the only solution
Obi said he would borrow 12 billion dollars that he had the connections

The Koko is what you use the borrowed money to do

APC from Buhari to Tinubu now keep borrowing to build infrastructure with the hope that the infrastructure would kick start development

Not only are the infrastructure over inflated they are sighted wrongly so can't even breakeven

So they just increase our debt service, increase recurrent expenditure and have absolutely no increase in revenue

Obi solution is to borrow money

Give it to the people, support business especially in export potential business and import substitutes

1) you create employment
2) you boost revenue, as this businesses come for the needed loan you capture them into the tax net
3) you don't increase debt service per say as the people would pay back the loan

This can kick start a chain of events that kick start the economy

OBi and Tinubu are not the same
APC are fools . You're building infrastructure for people you made hungry and jobless.

Yesterday, just after 3pm ,on th link bridge from Jakande estate to Isheri in Lagos. while on a Keke I sighted two Aboki boys trying to remove the metal covering the drainage. The Keke was moving so fast the rider couldn't stop.

Most of the metal on that bridge had already been removed we read news of people cutting electric cables . The masses priority is food, health, shelter, clothing and education.

That's what a responsible Govt should face first
Re: Peter Obi : I Would’ve Borrowed Money To Defend The Naira! (video) by nairalanda1(m): 8:59am On Oct 12, 2024
Inosky:
Why not fight corruption, the recover the stolen money of the past administration and use it to defend Naira? This is where I live Sowore.
I'm disappointed with Peter Obi's statement here.
Though I know he's prudent with money and good I'm saving.
And what happens when the money finishes?

Saudi Arabia has a strong currency, and they spend billions of dollars to defend it, at one point they even spent 120 billion dolalrs in ten months to defend the riyal. (That led to alarm bells, and to them eventually setting up a soverign wealth fund...something one of their officials admitted they should have done ages ago)

Plus defendig the naira like that won't end round tripping. ANd guess who benefits the most from that...yes the same looters.

If you want a strong naira, do more to earn lots of forex...which means diversification, making sure everyone pays tax, and removing all subsides.
Re: Peter Obi : I Would’ve Borrowed Money To Defend The Naira! (video) by Cajal(m): 8:59am On Oct 12, 2024
He rose on the back of ethnic and religion sentiments
He lacks capacity, competence and character required for economic prosperity
Re: Peter Obi : I Would’ve Borrowed Money To Defend The Naira! (video) by mrvitalis(m): 9:00am On Oct 12, 2024
ayindejimmy:
APC are fools . You're building infrastructure for people you made hungry.

Yesterday, just after 3pm ,on th link bridge from Jakande estate to Isheri while in a Keke I sighted two Aboki boys trying to remove the metal covering the drainage. The Keke was moving so fast the rider couldn't stop.

Most of the metal on that bridge had already been removed we read news of people cutting electric cables . The masses priorty is food, health, shelter, clothing and education.

That's what a responsible Govt should face
You are doing that would borrowed money

It's like building a village house with borrowed money
Re: Peter Obi : I Would’ve Borrowed Money To Defend The Naira! (video) by mrvitalis(m): 9:01am On Oct 12, 2024
Pootle:
oga na obi go use em hand share the money...see his measure wont work still not until nigerians are ready to change, give out loan they default in payment or the funds are even embezzled. the main problem is us
Oga I'm talking about loans to business that get loans abroad and from banks

So you think Emzor would default on loans?
Or juhel?
Re: Peter Obi : I Would’ve Borrowed Money To Defend The Naira! (video) by mrvitalis(m): 9:01am On Oct 12, 2024
unavailablecity:
ABSOLUTE NONSENSE THIS WILL ONLY HELP THE IMPORTERS MORE AND MAJORITIES ARE IGBOS.. So where is the production bla bla bla ? RUBBISH
Did you even read it at all?
Re: Peter Obi : I Would’ve Borrowed Money To Defend The Naira! (video) by stuffs2002: 9:03am On Oct 12, 2024
mrvitalis:
The same region Toping you on health, education and every developmental index

Yet they are dumb n you are smart
Health: Na una people get high BP pass for Nigeria. Na una people get mad people pass for Nigeria

Education: Since when are miracle centres a yardstick for educational advancement. No wonder Mmesoma became a celebrity in her region after faking her JAMB scores

Apart from dancing gwo gwo gwo ngwo, what are south east governors doing to develop their people.
Re: Peter Obi : I Would’ve Borrowed Money To Defend The Naira! (video) by sparko1(m): 9:03am On Oct 12, 2024
mrvitalis:
I simplified that part it's a very complex process and not to individual per say but businesses

Say take pharmaceutical industry for example

You call Top 25 industry players...ask them

1) what do you import that you can produce here if money is not an issue and how much it would cost

2) what would it take for you to become a net exporter of drugs across say west Africa

They list their demands

You agree with them and banks

2 billion dollars made available to banks at 2 percent interest rate for 15 years first 5 years zero interest and zero repayment

Banks. Loan to this companies at not more than 10% interest with first 5 years zero payment


B) you think those companies that left Nigeria would leave if you offered them 100 million dollars 2% intense rate for 10 years with first 5 years no payment in exchange for more sourcing of materials locally?

Bros what you don't know is bigger than you
Developmental economics is no joke
Read your statement, you want to give a company 100 million dollars with zero interest for 5 years, who will give you the money when they know your tenure only last for 4 years?

World bank won't give you money to finance private enterprises, never, you can verify this as your boss will say.

Borrowing always comes with conditions, like China, they borrow you money, you engage their company in the construction, there's nothing like interest free loan anywhere, wake up.

The example you gave sounds lame, we already produce most of some drugs but the competition from fake peddlers won't let it flourish.

The only venture Worth investing in is agriculture.
Re: Peter Obi : I Would’ve Borrowed Money To Defend The Naira! (video) by mrvitalis(m): 9:04am On Oct 12, 2024
sparko1:
Read your statement, you want to give a company 100 million dollars with zero interest for 5 years, who will give you the money when they know your tenure only last for 4 years?

World bank won't give you money to finance private enterprises, never, you can verify this as your boss will say.

Borrowing always comes with conditions, like China, they borrow you money, you engage their company in the construction, there's nothing like interest free loan anywhere, wake up.

The example you gave sounds lame, we already produce most of some drugs but the competition from fake peddlers won't let it flourish.

The only venture Worth investing in is agriculture.
Loans to countries most times carry zero interest for 10 years.. Smile

Do a little research before you condem sir
Re: Peter Obi : I Would’ve Borrowed Money To Defend The Naira! (video) by mrvitalis(m): 9:05am On Oct 12, 2024
stuffs2002:
Health: Na una people get high BP pass for Nigeria. Na una people get mad people pass for Nigeria

Education: Since when are miracle centres a yardstick for educational advancement. No wonder Mmesoma became a celebrity in her region after faking her JAMB scores

Apart from dancing gwo gwo gwo ngwo, what are south east governors doing to develop their people.
What index do you want to use to measure education and health performance oga

Choose the index let's compare
Re: Peter Obi : I Would’ve Borrowed Money To Defend The Naira! (video) by oshiokpu(m): 9:07am On Oct 12, 2024
mrvitalis:
Bros this is way above your intellectual capacity

This is advanced developmental economics

Not a single soul in Tinubu team. Or Buhari team is a developmental economics
This statement further demonstrates my prior suspicions. You suffer from what we in my profession refer to as delusional self-aggrandizement. Like your candidate, you prop up a lot of meaningless simplistic thesis, not backed up by any instance or case study of success. You think that everyone on the internet is as stupid or ignorant as you and your forebears!
Re: Peter Obi : I Would’ve Borrowed Money To Defend The Naira! (video) by nairalanda1(m): 9:07am On Oct 12, 2024
mrvitalis:
Oga I'm talking about loans to business that get loans abroad and from banks

So you think Emzor would default on loans?
Or juhel?
Well, if the Obi government borrowed dollars to give emzor and juhel loans, they would have to make enough profit to pay back the loans, which means that drugs they make go up in price.

And people will start calling obi a bad man.
Re: Peter Obi : I Would’ve Borrowed Money To Defend The Naira! (video) by stuffs2002: 9:08am On Oct 12, 2024
mrvitalis:
What index do you want to use to measure education and health performance oga

Choose the index let's compare
Abeg getat

IIGB0S are the most executed tribe on the planet. Go to all these Asian countries and you will find loads of IIGB0S in jails awaiting their execution dates or serving heavy jail times for drugs
Re: Peter Obi : I Would’ve Borrowed Money To Defend The Naira! (video) by SmartyPants(m): 9:09am On Oct 12, 2024
The best thing to happpen to Peter Obi was losing the election. He would have been monumentally exposed.
Re: Peter Obi : I Would’ve Borrowed Money To Defend The Naira! (video) by blackboy(m): 9:10am On Oct 12, 2024
Borrow or sell crude oil for naira. PBAT if I am not mistaken and his smart boys from Lagos at CBN are borrowing but we have not seen any positive results. Check Russia out. The sell oil for their local currency Rubbles and their economy and currency has gained great value since.
Re: Peter Obi : I Would’ve Borrowed Money To Defend The Naira! (video) by stagger: 9:13am On Oct 12, 2024
HedgesTV:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GBNjnINAG0

Peter Obi had an interview with Arise news and he shared his thoughts on the nation and also gave his opinion on what he would’ve done to defend the Naira after devaluation.

This clip had mixed reactions from people as some agreed with him and some people didn’t think it is a wise move.

Full video above !
Borrow money to defend the currency. Imagine!
Re: Peter Obi : I Would’ve Borrowed Money To Defend The Naira! (video) by pquaver(m):
mrvitalis:
Juhel pharmacy
Orange drugs
Tiger foods
International brewery
Innoson motors

Just the few

Obi ideology is fundamentally different from APC, APC believes so much in legacy projects

Obi believes in human capital development even as a private individual
Small small with Ur ließ.. sometimes i dont know If u think people are children..remove orange drugs and innoson from that Ur list jare ..No na U for kuku add dangote and ibeto
Re: Peter Obi : I Would’ve Borrowed Money To Defend The Naira! (video) by sammytovic(m): 9:13am On Oct 12, 2024
mrvitalis:
Every successful economy started with infrastructure? That's a big lie

Lets take a look at China they started by educating their people, funding local businesses before building infrastructure

You don't grow an economy by using borrowed money to build infrastructure

In fact let's take two village

Village A

Gets 20 billion... Use it to build all the roads, build school, hospitals and markets

Village B

Gets 20 billion, doesn't do any infrastructure projects..but . Support it's people to

Build a cassava processing plants
Pall oil processing plants
Rice mills
Shoe factory
And many other businesses


After 10 years which village would be better off answer sincerely
The fact is you can't rule one out of the two instances you gave, they work together. If there is no infrastructure, how would they transport goods produced, that can even lead to minimal profits making it to succumb to low production in long term. Like I said both instances are very important but i think the instance on infrastructure is more sustainable in long term.
Re: Peter Obi : I Would’ve Borrowed Money To Defend The Naira! (video) by confydoedowaye(m): 9:14am On Oct 12, 2024
yoruboid:
Nigeria dodged a bullet

This man is d@ft and bereft of ideas
Let's try to be realistic. This is not time for politics. Whosoever can rescue Nigeria, I'll give my full support. At the moment, things are hard in all corners of the country. If Nigeria youth can have one voice. This country will be far better.
Re: Peter Obi : I Would’ve Borrowed Money To Defend The Naira! (video) by Smartcitizen: 9:14am On Oct 12, 2024
Kobojunkie:
Peter Obi would have devalued the Naira as Cardoso had done and then borrowed money -- taking even from the foreign reserves --to shore it up like Cardoso had also done? undecided
But I doubt if he would have purchased a presidential jet with such amount of money and building VP's house with 20 billion Naira.

Only a careless mad man will do that for Nigeria and expect progress in his finances.
Re: Peter Obi : I Would’ve Borrowed Money To Defend The Naira! (video) by Honestey: 9:15am On Oct 12, 2024
See? We didn't just dodged bullet, we escaped earthquake and tsunami as well. Excessive borrowing is what is killing Nigeria already. Buhari borrowed our future with oil yet to be supplied and even printed N30tr ways and means which is making Tinubu struggle to breath on that presidential seat. Peteru never prepared for Aso Rock back in 2023 and till now he still never got different template to solve Nigeria problem. To him it's just a religion war and nothing more. Imagine Aisha Yeshufu being our minister for finance. Yeyyyyy!
Re: Peter Obi : I Would’ve Borrowed Money To Defend The Naira! (video) by gigabyte13: 9:15am On Oct 12, 2024
Mtchewwwwwwwwww
Na who no serious dey take OBI serious
OBI keh......
Person wey Sabi lie pass lai Mohammed
He go talk one thing for morning, talk another one for afternoon....

OBI na another upgrade of SOWORE
Re: Peter Obi : I Would’ve Borrowed Money To Defend The Naira! (video) by Ready2speak: 9:16am On Oct 12, 2024
I see the comments of so many dimwits who knows next to nothing about finance and funding profiling a man that runs banks and businesses both within and outside the country.

Why devalue and what margin/percentage is acceptable that will not negatively impact the currency should be the first question to ask.

Then comes the next question; Why borrow and what are the terms (long or short) and the money what is to be used for?
Is the economy capable to pay back in either short or long term?
To what use is the money or monies to be put? Is it for industries and manufacturing, Agriculture or infrastructures like roads, rail, power or any other area with direct impact on the economy?

Truth is when there is no money to run a country, there are options available. (1) Sell assets if there are any. (2) Tax the people more. (3) Reduce or cut down on cost of governance and deploy meagre resources to areas of critical importance.
(4) Borrowing.

If the last option is to borrow, where and where will the money be deployed is critical.
So those shouting Peter Obi down, it shows they don't even understand anything about finance.

Let them tell us what the alternative is out of the 4 options outlined. Let's debate it.
Re: Peter Obi : I Would’ve Borrowed Money To Defend The Naira! (video) by mrvitalis(m): 9:16am On Oct 12, 2024
sammytovic:
The fact is you can't rule one out of the two instances you gave, they work together. If there is no infrastructure, how would they transport goods produced, that can even lead to minimal profits making it to succumb to low production in long term. Like I said both instances are very important but i think the instance on infrastructure is more sustainable in long term.
Firstly if Nigeria was ok fine do both

But we are in a situation where revenue is far less than debt service and recurrent expenditure

Every infrastructure should be put on hole unless essential maintenance

The invest in your people to increase revenue

When revenue becomes greater than debt service + recurrent expenditure then we can resume infrastructure development

How is that difficult
Re: Peter Obi : I Would’ve Borrowed Money To Defend The Naira! (video) by CodeTemplarr: 9:16am On Oct 12, 2024
This man is extremely deluded.
Re: Peter Obi : I Would’ve Borrowed Money To Defend The Naira! (video) by stuffs2002: 9:16am On Oct 12, 2024
sammytovic:
The fact is you can't rule one out of the two instances you gave, they work together. If there is no infrastructure, how would they transport goods produced, that can even lead to minimal profits making it to succumb to low production in long term. Like I said both instances are very important but i think the instance on infrastructure is more sustainable in long term.
Please pay no attention to mrvitalis

He sounds like a mentally challenged person. He says Obi will develop Nigeria by borrowing without infrastructure. Such a dumb fellow.

Even Obi Pandora must be challenged mentally for him to spew all that crap on national TV
Re: Peter Obi : I Would’ve Borrowed Money To Defend The Naira! (video) by mrvitalis(m): 9:17am On Oct 12, 2024
pquaver:
Small small with Ur ließ.. sometimes are dont know If u think people are children..remove orange drugs and innoson from that Ur list jare ..No na U for kuku add dangote and ibeto
Orange drugs factory in Anambra was facilitated by Obi

Innoson was supported by Obi 1000 cars orders with payment upfront gave innoson it's footing

Do you want to deny any of the above?
Re: Peter Obi : I Would’ve Borrowed Money To Defend The Naira! (video) by DeLaRue: 9:18am On Oct 12, 2024
ShogunNoName:
The thing wrong with the Yoruba is obvious. they do not like truth. They are focused and tribalism and anti progressive. They are our collective problem. Check history
It didn't take you long to try and turn this into a tribe thing.

Where is the logic in that.

People are just expressing their opinions, as they are entitled to, on Mr Obi's views on the economy.
Re: Peter Obi : I Would’ve Borrowed Money To Defend The Naira! (video) by stuffs2002: 9:18am On Oct 12, 2024
CodeTemplarr:
This man is extremely deluded.
After watching the video, I came to the conclusion that Obi must be a retard
Re: Peter Obi : I Would’ve Borrowed Money To Defend The Naira! (video) by mrvitalis(m): 9:18am On Oct 12, 2024
stuffs2002:
Abeg getat

IIGB0S are the most executed tribe on the planet. Go to all these Asian countries and you will find loads of IIGB0S in jails awaiting their execution dates or serving heavy jail times for drugs
Ok Do you have any facts to back it up?
Re: Peter Obi : I Would’ve Borrowed Money To Defend The Naira! (video) by mrvitalis(m): 9:19am On Oct 12, 2024
nairalanda1:
Well, if the Obi government borrowed dollars to give emzor and juhel loans, they would have to make enough profit to pay back the loans, which means that drugs they make go up in price.

And people will start calling obi a bad man.
Or they might vertically integrate productions they outsourced before and expand to new markets with the money there by reducing cost
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