Photo: Peter Obi
1. It is a mark of irresponsibility that our children are at home and we are campaigning
2. We bought our presidential nomination forms at N40million/N100 million. Can Nigerians demand from candidates their annual income taxes?
3. Nigeria is getting 18 billion dollars from oil revenue, while Malaysia is making 50 billion dollars from Diaspora remittances.
4. By 2030 the whole world will be in dire need of computer engineers and health professionals to the tune of 10 million people and our children are wasting at home .
5.Kwame Nkuruma University, Ghana, is the best university in Africa and one of the best 50 in the world in Science and Technology.
6. If I become President, education in primary and secondary schools will be free, while tertiary education will not be free.
7. My first three priority as President will be education, education and education!
8. I will invest and invest in education and export graduates and increase diaspora remittances far above 20 billion dollars.
9. As Governor of Anambra State,
I paid all Youth Corps members serving in schools 4,000 naira stipends on the 24th of every month.
10. As Governor, I paid every citizen of Anambra above the age of 70 and residing in rural area a stipend of 5,000 naira every month.
11. When I assumed office as Governor, I discovered that Anambra State had a Governor’s Lodge in Abuja. I renovated the building and donated it to the United Nations free of charge, which eliminated our cost of maintenance .Till today, because of that, the UN has been supporting Anambra State Government in multiple ways.
12. You can fight insecurity in two ways, natural insecurity is fought by Job Creation, while institutional insecurity is fought with Modern Technology.
13. There is nothing like security vote in our constitution. What we have is contingency vote, which should be a maximum of 4% of expenditure.
14. As Governor, they would bring to me a security vote of N12.5 billion for approval annually.
From there I would give each primary school in the state 5 million, secondly school 10 million each and then supported five school of nursing and midwifery to get accreditation.
I gave about 500 first class graduates from Anambra 1 million Naira each. All cost the state 10 billion.
The remaing 2.5 billion was used as security vote, which covered payment of security personnel at communities, bought vehicles for 200 communities in Anambra.
15. To create jobs, banks must be made to give certain percentage of loans to SMEs.
16. I have a 28-year-old son, who works in the UK and he has no car. He has to earn and buy himself a car.
17. My 30-year/old daughter is a teacher in a secondary school and she is happy doing her work.
18. Throughout my 8 years as Governor, nobody from the Obi family served in my government. I was the one elected and none of them. I take all the responsibility of governance.
19. If as President, I don’t steal,and my wife and children don’t steal, corruption would have been cut by 50%
20. The youths you neglect today will take a revenge on you tomorrow.
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