Ex Nigerian Governor, Peter Obi has come out to say that he will rescue Nigeria from its present economic woes if given an opportunity to lead the country.

He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and Nigerians have been reacting.

According to him, the dwindling economic fortunes of Nigeria is nothing to write home about, and it can only be blamed on poor civilian leadership that has been installed in the country from 1999 to the present.

Peter Obi added that if nothing urgent is done to change the status quo, the current leaders would plunge the nation into more debt.

His words, “We even borrow to service debts. What we are sharing is finished. We need wealth creators. We need to move Nigeria from a consumptive nation into a productive nation.”

“The problem of Nigeria is leadership. The cumulative effect of the failure of our leadership in the past decades is what we are suffering from now. So we just have to do things right. Countries don’t fail overnight.”

“Natural security is when human beings know where their next meal will come from. 98 million Nigerians are living below the poverty line. The poverty rate in Nigeria with a population of about 200 million people is far higher than that of China and India with populations of over 2.8 billion people combined.”

“Unemployment rate in Nigeria is the highest. More than fifty percent of our young people who are of production age are doing nothing. We want to move Nigeria from consumption to production. Everybody is suffering the pains.”