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Re: Peter Obi : I Would’ve Borrowed Money To Defend The Naira! (video) by nairalanda1(m): 9:19am On Oct 12, 2024
blackboy:
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.
Russia actually sells crude in dollars. They also sell at cut throat prices because they need the money urgently

Their economy does well, because they do not only rely on oyel, and also they export manufactured goods and servics

Something your agbado government, or its predecessors , never consider for nigeria.
Re: Peter Obi : I Would’ve Borrowed Money To Defend The Naira! (video) by fredoooooo: 9:20am On Oct 12, 2024
Obi to n siere ... grin cheesy
Re: Peter Obi : I Would’ve Borrowed Money To Defend The Naira! (video) by stuffs2002: 9:22am On Oct 12, 2024
DeLaRue:
It didn't take you long to try and turn this into a tribe thing.
Is Nnamdi Azikiwe Yoruba?
Is Nzougwu Yoruba?
Is Aguyi Ironsi Yoruba?
Is Ojukwu Yoruba?
Is Simon Ekpa Yoruba?
Is Nnamdi Kanu Yoruba?


For the records, I am not Yoruba but all the above people ran dow Nigeria and they are not Yoruba
Re: Peter Obi : I Would’ve Borrowed Money To Defend The Naira! (video) by Tareq1105: 9:22am On Oct 12, 2024
You know what? I've read all the trash you wrote about your lord and savior saint Obi and I felt you don't really deserve my response bcoz your comment shows the level of your understanding.
phantom:
The difference? Obi actually has a plan! Tinubu is clueless as fuk. I would be surprised if Tinubu actually wipes his ass himself. undecided

Obi is sure as a frugal money manager that he could have borrowed 15 billion dollars, for instance to DEFEND THE NAIRA , KNOWING FULLY WELL, that the resultant currency appreciation, IF CHANNELLED TO THE APPROPRIATE SECTORS could give the economy the much needed "bolus of glucose" it needs to return 150 billion dollars back.

It's all about having a plan! Obi has always been about BORROW TO CHANNEL TO THE REAL PRODUCTIVE SECTORS AND NOT TO CONSUME BY spending recklessly on cars, yachts and private jets..

If I have a business that I know if I put in $2 will return $6.. why won't I borrow to put into it if I don't have the initial funding for it? undecided

Don't forget! Obi is a business man! He is a billionaire from wholesale and retail... you think he doesn't know a thing or two about money management? You call him container economist but THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT WE NEED TO DIG US OUT OF THIS MESS.
you said Obi is a businessman, he's a billionaire etc. you said Obi would borrow $2b to finance a business that would bring $6b. I know you don't understand governance just like your Obi and that's why someone said governance wasn't about container business. Note this, profit is not the intent of government. It's about service and well-being of the people. Let me just leave you to your dreams.
Re: Peter Obi : I Would’ve Borrowed Money To Defend The Naira! (video) by sparko1(m): 9:22am On Oct 12, 2024
mrvitalis:
Loans to countries most times carry zero interest for 10 years.. Smile

Do a little research before you condem sir
From where? World bank? Except for grant for natural destaster or something like that, all loan has interest, maybe low but there's an interest on it.

We are still paying some load collected during Obasanjo tenure, interest free?🙄🙄
Re: Peter Obi : I Would’ve Borrowed Money To Defend The Naira! (video) by stuffs2002: 9:23am On Oct 12, 2024
mrvitalis:
Ok Do you have any facts to back it up?
Go back to your mkporu mirri. I don't have time for retards.
Re: Peter Obi : I Would’ve Borrowed Money To Defend The Naira! (video) by jayce232: 9:24am On Oct 12, 2024
nairalanda1:
So, because I said that we need to make hard choices, therefore I support the corruption of oiur useless leaders.?

Oga, get out of my sight.
What kind of hard choices do u think u are making without your leaders being part of it?? Why are they not cutting down cost of governance since we all need to make hard choices for a better Nigeria?? You must be really dumb to think those leaders care about u!
Re: Peter Obi : I Would’ve Borrowed Money To Defend The Naira! (video) by HedgesTV(op): 9:24am On Oct 12, 2024
stagger:
Borrow money to defend the currency. Imagine!
And this was the supposed Messiah for Nigeria lol
Re: Peter Obi : I Would’ve Borrowed Money To Defend The Naira! (video) by nairalanda1(m): 9:24am On Oct 12, 2024
stuffs2002:
Is Nnamdi Azikiwe Yoruba?
Is Nzougwu Yoruba?
Is Aguyi Ironsi Yoruba?
Is Ojukwu Yoruba?
Is Simon Ekpa Yoruba?
Is Nnamdi Kanu Yoruba?


For the records, I am not Yoruba but all the above people ran dow Nigeria and they are not Yoruba
Nigeria was run down by NIgerians of all tribes and religions

And they ran it down by running it on the idea that we should sell raw materials to the developed world, and use the revenue to import our way to development and western lifestlyle, and pay for subsides for millions of people...to lift them out of poverty in record time.

The result is the debt ridden mess we are today.
Re: Peter Obi : I Would’ve Borrowed Money To Defend The Naira! (video) by mrvitalis(m): 9:24am On Oct 12, 2024
sparko1:
From where? World bank? Except for grant for natural destaster or something like that, all loan has interest, maybe low but there's an interest on it.

We are still paying some load collected during Obasanjo tenure, interest free?🙄🙄
National loans are usually very low interest and have a grace payment period

Why not just google ova
Re: Peter Obi : I Would’ve Borrowed Money To Defend The Naira! (video) by nairalanda1(m): 9:25am On Oct 12, 2024
jayce232:
What kind of hard choices do u think u are making without your leaders being part of it?? Why are they not cutting down cost of governance since we all need to make hard choices for a better Nigeria?? You must be really dumb to think those leaders care about u!
Hmm, this one has been rejected by his succubus concubine.
Re: Peter Obi : I Would’ve Borrowed Money To Defend The Naira! (video) by merits(m): 9:25am 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 !
That is how you people talk when you reach Aso villa you will started doing different things useless set of people
Re: Peter Obi : I Would’ve Borrowed Money To Defend The Naira! (video) by mrvitalis(m): 9:25am On Oct 12, 2024
stuffs2002:
Go back to your mkporu mirri. I don't have time for retards.
Quoting 12 times since morning shows u have my time don't you think?
Re: Peter Obi : I Would’ve Borrowed Money To Defend The Naira! (video) by nairalanda1(m): 9:27am On Oct 12, 2024
merits:
That is how you people talk when you reach Aso villa you will started doing different things useless set of people
Well, that does not justify the mistakes APC is making right now.
Re: Peter Obi : I Would’ve Borrowed Money To Defend The Naira! (video) by Rochasstatue(f): 9:27am On Oct 12, 2024
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
This is why I fear you obidients.
You are gullible.
Easily deceived.
Brainless.
Read what you wrote again and if you have A\C in your house, cut the wire, plug it, switch it on and put the cut part into your mouth.
Re: Peter Obi : I Would’ve Borrowed Money To Defend The Naira! (video) by jayce232: 9:27am On Oct 12, 2024
nairalanda1:
Hmm, this one has been rejected by his succubus concubine.
You have suddenly become daft??
Answer my question, u clearly stated we needed to make hard decisions to become a rich nation, so why are your leaders not taking part in this transformation process by cutting down cost of governance?? You can now see how f00lish u look
Re: Peter Obi : I Would’ve Borrowed Money To Defend The Naira! (video) by merits(m): 9:27am On Oct 12, 2024
nairalanda1:
Well, that does not justify the mistakes APC is making right now.
sure
Re: Peter Obi : I Would’ve Borrowed Money To Defend The Naira! (video) by nairalanda1(m): 9:29am On Oct 12, 2024
Rochasstatue:
This is why I fear you obidients.
You are gullible.
Easily deceived.
Brainless.
Read what you wrote again and if you have A\C in your house, cut the wire, plug it, switch it on and put the cut part into your mouth.
The problem is, APC under t-pain Is doing the same thing Obi proposed.

At least they tried to defend the naira with borrowed money (which they lied about) then when that did not work, they had to devalue the thing.

Plus Buhari did the same thing for 8 years, and left us with debt service eating 99% of our revenue.
Re: Peter Obi : I Would’ve Borrowed Money To Defend The Naira! (video) by Ready2speak: 9:29am On Oct 12, 2024
But Mr poster, you played the devils advocate here by playing a half video that did not capture all he said. You should know that's criminal misrepresentation in journalism.
You did it on purpose to push a wrong narrative and present the man as lacking in ideas and knowledge. That's criminal. If he is the troublesome time and he gets hold of this your half truth, you know what the outcome should be.
Better be careful as there may be people here who are close to him and you could be sued for criminal misrepresentation.
They don't catch cruise with everything as the video is in the public space and for you to cut it so as to achieve your intentions and purposes may land you in big trouble.
Re: Peter Obi : I Would’ve Borrowed Money To Defend The Naira! (video) by epainos: 9:30am 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
Village B that built price, cassava, shoe, mills will carry their products on their heads to hawk in the street because their is no good road and standardized marketplace. Right? This is what is happening in Nigeria. Infrastructure like storage facilities, good road to move products, and close by marketplaces aren't there. Go ask farmers the percentage of harvests that get spoilt. And you will use bicycles and bikes to deliver the shoes and other goods you produce to your customers because of no good road. Right?

Infrastructure must be in place first that aids the marketplace. Leave the rest and see how investors pump in. Do you know how many farm villages were built in Nigeria and are no longer used because farmers were unable to cope due to a poor road network?

China built all infrastructure first before other things. The dame with south Korea. By now, Lagos should have demolished all buildings on the mainland and erected at least 30 levels of skyscrapers in Ebute Meta, Yaba, Ikorodu Road, Ikeja, Ogba, and even Agege. Do that and see if Lagos does not generate 10 times the GDP it currently generates.
Re: Peter Obi : I Would’ve Borrowed Money To Defend The Naira! (video) by mrvitalis(m): 9:33am On Oct 12, 2024
epainos:
Village B that built price, cassava, shoe, mills will carry their products on their heads to hawk in the street because their is no good road and standardized marketplace. Right? Thisnis what is happening in Nigeria. Infrastructure like storage facilities, good road to move products, and close by marketplaces aren't there. Go ask farmers the percentage of harvests that get spoilt. And you will use bicycles and bikes to deliver the goods you produced to your customers because of no good road.

Infrastructure must be in place first that aids the marketplace. Leave the rest and see how investors pump in. Do you know how many farm villages were built in Nigeria and are no longer used because farmers were unable to cope due to a poor road network?

China built all infrastructure first before other things. The dame with south Korea. By now, Lagos should have demolished all buildings on the mainland and erected at least 30 levels of skyscrapers in Ebute Meta, Yaba, Ikorodu Road, Ikeja, Ogba, and even Agege. Do that and see if Lagos does not generate 10 times the GDP it currently generates.
Before the money was given what road did they use to go buy things

Akwa ibom and aba is a perfect example

Abia had the worse roads, Akwa ibom had the best infrastructure yet goes to Aba through the bad road to buy goods

I am not saying infrastructure is bad, no
I am saying borrowing money to build infrastructure is foolish

Taking your kids to vacation is not bad
But using your capital to do that is foolish

How hard can this be
Re: Peter Obi : I Would’ve Borrowed Money To Defend The Naira! (video) by correctguy101(m): 9:38am On Oct 12, 2024
richiemcgold:
.. 🤔
Buhari borrowed and we condemned him for that.

Tinubu is currently borrowing and we're also condemning him for it.

.. now Obi says he too would've borrowed.

This simply means that Nigeria is a VERY POOR COUNTRY (although the country is massively endowed with valuable resources).
So can you explain where the billions and trillions being stolen by politicians are from? huh
Re: Peter Obi : I Would’ve Borrowed Money To Defend The Naira! (video) by Honestey: 9:39am On Oct 12, 2024
Ready2speak:
But Mr poster, you played the devils advocate here by playing a half video that did not capture all he said. You should know that's criminal misrepresentation in journalism.
You did it on purpose to push a wrong narrative and present the man as lacking in ideas and knowledge. That's criminal. If he is the troublesome time and he gets hold of this your half truth, you know what the outcome should be.
Better be careful as there may be people here who are close to him and you could be sued for criminal misrepresentation.
They don't catch cruise with everything as the video is in the public space and for you to cut it so as to achieve your intentions and purposes may land you in big trouble.
Whaaaaaat! So there is another video where Obi debunked this trash he talked? Okey play it for us
Re: Peter Obi : I Would’ve Borrowed Money To Defend The Naira! (video) by epainos: 9:40am On Oct 12, 2024
PHIPEX:
Not Infrastructure but Profitable Infrastructure. White elephant project is also Infrastructure but useless.

Compare 3rd mainland bridge vs Daura Train project. One is profitable another is useless.
If you read my comment clearly, you will understand that I have mentioned this too.

Laura Train Project cannot be neglected because you just have to be fair to all regions. The north are also planning towards the day the south will tell them to go away and mean it. And I think the North having such projects are the reasons they may accept to allow Nigeria break. They also will want to connect with their neigbors. Lol.

That project may be meaningless to you, but it is very important to them. However, I am aware that if the residents of the area are sincere, the train project has the potential to generate significant revenue. Perhaps not as far as Lagos to Cotonou, or River to Cameroon.

I am not in support of looting money with projects, but it is better to use these loans for projects rather than using them to defend naira, palliative, or expenses that will just varnish like that. Some people want them to borrow and support small businesses. For what? Small businesses owners that will collect cash and japa. You use it for education...and they don't return to serve your nation. Na good investment be that? Na that all must be on projects because we cannot ignore education also. But I support more projects.
Re: Peter Obi : I Would’ve Borrowed Money To Defend The Naira! (video) by c900: 9:41am On Oct 12, 2024
forget about naira, give us 24hrs electricity. remove duty on food imports. the 12billion $ you want to borrow can give us 2 nuclear plants. increase minimum wage to 150k. reduce oil price sold to Dangote by 30% so we can get fuel cheap.
Re: Peter Obi : I Would’ve Borrowed Money To Defend The Naira! (video) by Sweeetheart(m): 9:42am On Oct 12, 2024
All these expired politicians
Re: Peter Obi : I Would’ve Borrowed Money To Defend The Naira! (video) by epainos: 9:45am On Oct 12, 2024
mrvitalis:
Before the money was given what road did they use to go buy things

Akwa ibom and aba is a perfect example

Abia had the worse roads, Akwa ibom had the best infrastructure yet goes to Aba through the bad road to buy goods

I am not saying infrastructure is bad, no
I am saying borrowing money to build infrastructure is foolish

Taking your kids to vacation is not bad
But using your capital to do that is foolish

How hard can this be
You obviously need to study the relationship between urban planning and economics. They go together. Akwa Ibom you have mentioned are suffering seriously and the rate of growth there is so small. This is Lagos is still ahead. Lagos is ahead of Onitsha too because of this reason. Still you don't see it? Lol. This is why south east will not be prosperous as it should be. Put infrastructure in that Akwa Ibom (SS) and in most SE states and you will see how they will compete with Lagos.

If you have to borrow to put infrastructure there, you better do it. The only problem is corruption.
Re: Peter Obi : I Would’ve Borrowed Money To Defend The Naira! (video) by mrvitalis(m): 9:46am On Oct 12, 2024
epainos:
You obviously need to study the relationship between urban planning and economics. They go together. Akwa Ibom you have mentioned are suffering seriously and the rate of growth there is so small. This is Lagos is still ahead. Lagos is ahead of Onitsha too because of this reason. Still you don't see it? Lol. This is why south east will not be prosperous as it should be. Put infrastructure in that Akwa Ibom (SS) and in most SE states and you will see how they will compete with Lagos.

If you have to borrow to put infrastructure there, you better do it. The only problem is corruption.
Why is the rate of growth slow despite having all the infrastructurehuh
Re: Peter Obi : I Would’ve Borrowed Money To Defend The Naira! (video) by epainos: 9:46am On Oct 12, 2024
mrvitalis:
Why is the rate of growth slow despite having all the infrastructurehuh
Rate of growth of where or what?
Re: Peter Obi : I Would’ve Borrowed Money To Defend The Naira! (video) by BreconHills(m): 9:47am On Oct 12, 2024
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
Of course! Borrow to fund subsidized imports like Heinz Tomato Ketchup.
What's not to like?

Brilliant economic strategy...


For importers at least.
Re: Peter Obi : I Would’ve Borrowed Money To Defend The Naira! (video) by jmaine: 9:48am On Oct 12, 2024
stagger:
Borrow money to defend the currency. Imagine!
This is exactly what the President did last year. Una dey always comments without a quality counterargument. The main difference with PO proposal is that you don't leave the naira to float and investing in SMEs and businesses to encourage export.

With that approach, the super inflation we are experiencing won't be in place.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/currencies/nigerias-nnpc-secures-3-billion-loan-stabilize-fx-market-2023-08-16/
Re: Peter Obi : I Would’ve Borrowed Money To Defend The Naira! (video) by Jeje247: 9:48am On Oct 12, 2024
ThatNaijaNigger:
Na Me be OP. I go too appreciate am if una fit Subscribe to my YouTube channel make I see food chop🙏🏽
Thank you.
Is that why you are nodding like agama?
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