The Labour Party presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi, has said that organized private sector is critical to any government business hoping to make impact.
Speaking in Port Harcourt, Rivers state, Saturday night, at the South-South Business Summit, Obi said for any government to succeed it must partner the organized private sector and must also create an enabling environment for domestic and foreign investors.
Obi told egg heads of the business community in the oil city that he and his Vice Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmad were coming from the private sector and understood clearly what was 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 ended up in sharing without production.
The former Anambra state Governor who identified himself as a trader told his audience that the consumption to production mantra of his campaign was real as it was the only way to drive the economy and attract foreign exchange for the country through exports.
“It is 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 on the social sector because crimes and criminalities will reduce,” he said.
He assured the captains of industry at the summit that if elected he would create a conducive environment for investors to come and help in tapping the country’s rich natural potential.
Obi also assured them that he and his deputy saw education as investment and would invest heavily in education and health because these two sectors differentiated the rich and poor countries.
The Presidential candidate did not forget to remind his audience that the coming election was existential one that required that people voted for characters they could trust, characters that had antecedents and the verifiable background to rely on.
He reiterated that the election was about competence and capacity, and not based on sentiments of tribe or religion.
The highlight of the night was the emotion that engulfed the summit venue when an SS2 Secondary school girl, Chizzy Ebube Balogun, after listening to the LP Presidential candidate talk about creating a new and better Nigeria, donated the sum of N100, 000 as her own contribution to his campaign for a better Nigeria.
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