Peter Obi’s annual Twitter space town hall, the Parallel Facts held on Saturday, July 30 with hundreds of Nigerians including the president, Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
On his arrival at the kickoff time of 6:00pm, Obi was welcomed with the Nigerian national anthem amid a show of love emojis from the excited audience.
In this article, the hosts take a look at the top key points in Obi’s bi-annual space talk with Nigerians.
- The number one problem in Nigeria, according to Peter Obi, is corruption.
“It kills entrepreneurship, professionalism and hard work. It allows people to have wealth without enterprise and it destroys the entire system,” he said. - He also said that in one month he would have set up a powerful economic team full of competent Nigerians to tackle the economic woes.
- Obi further opined; “The young people have been the greatest loser in this enterprise called today’s Nigeria. I bought my first, second, and third cars as a university student”.
- The LP leader also added; “There should be a retirement age for political office holders. The young people need to come onboard”.
- On fuel subsidy, Obi said; “‘We must first of all remove the criminal components in fuel subsidy removal then utilise the money in reviving our infrastructure, educational sector etc. The whole process must be transparent and people must see and feel the impact”.
- On tribalism, the Anambra former governor opined; “Incompetency on the side of politicians is the reason they use tribal cards to divide Nigerians during elections”.
- On education, Obi said; “The more educated the citizens of a country are, the more developed that country will be”.
Source: Parallel Facts
It was also observed that Nigeria’s president Bola Tinubu was personally present. Political watchers who made a screenshot of the participants wondered why he shelved all state duties to listen in instead of sending his media aides.
Others however, noted that many of his aides attended with him, a pointer to the influence of the Labour Party standard bearer on the country’s affairs.
Some Labour Party faithfuls also noted that a lot of Obi’s political promises are being implement by the Tinubu-led administration.
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