Obi assured the captains of industry at the summit that if elected he will create a conducive environment for investors to come and help in tapping the country’s rich natural potential.
By Jeffrey Agbo
A Senior Secondary School 2 student, Chizzy Balogun, has donated the sum of N100,000 to the campaign of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi.
Ms Balogun handed Obi the donation after the candidate spoke at the South-South Business Summit in Port Harcourt, Rivers State Saturday night.
The student made the contribution to him after listening to Obi talk about creating a new and better Nigeria.
At the summit, the former governor of Anambra State said the organised private sector is critical to any government business hoping to make impact.
Obi told egg heads of the business community in the oil city that he and his running mate, Datti Baba-Ahmed, are coming from the private sector and understand clearly what is needed to drive private sector activities.
He noted that previous governments failed in the country because they ignored the components of business in governance and end up in sharing without production.
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Obi, who identifies himself as a trader, told his audience that the consumption-to-production mantra of his campaign is real as it is the only way to drive the economy and attract foreign exchange for the country through exports.
It’s also through production that the people can be pulled out of poverty as youths in their productive age will be dutifully engaged and this will also impact the social sector because crimes and criminalities will reduce, he said.
Obi assured the captains of industry at the summit that if elected he will create a conducive environment for investors to come and help in tapping the country’s rich natural potential.
He also promised that his administration would see education as an investment and would invest heavily in education and health because these two sectors differentiate the rich and poor countries.
The presidential candidate reminded his audience that the coming election requires that people vote for characters they can trust, characters that have antecedents and the verifiable background to rely on. He reiterated that the election is about competence and capacity not on sentiments of tribe or religion.
