HERE ARE 10 POWERFUL QUOTES FROM PETER OBI AT CHATHAM HOUSE, January 16th, 2023.

• “We would use merit to employ, dramatically reduce poverty and return Nigeria to a place of strategic relevance with high value”.

• “Facilitate stronger institutions a key anchor that will turn Nigeria from a country of oil consumption to a country that produces based on fast factors”

• “Insecurity is a result of ineffective security strategy, address this by projecting strong leadership, state security and pursue a robust reform of security sector”

• “Emphasise from consumption to production which is driven by agrarian revolution and export industrialisation, build dams for export and revenue generation”

• “Borrowing must be for productive purposes, not consumption… enhance human capital development in our youths through investment in education, research and quality health”

• “Pursue a compulsory technical education, digital skills from primary to secondary level, prioritise funding of the artificial sector, data science and blockchain. Our higher institutions will be renovated as research centres”

• “ I will conduct an Afro-centric policy that will protect the rights of Nigerians abroad, advance the rights of Nigerians businesses abroad”

• “ The problem of Nigeria is based on complex leadership… lead Nigeria for an inclusive and sustaining Nigeria that works for all”

• “ Nigeria’s resources will be most prudently used for Nigeria”

• “As commander in Chief of Nigeria, I pledge our part to pursue policies that sustain an inclusive growth and development”