Peter Obi, the Vice Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, has said that anti-corruption war of the Buhari administration is not adding value to the nation’s economy.
Speaking at the NEDG, BON Vice-Presidential debate on Friday, Mr Obi said economic issues should be given great priority, stressing that revamping the economy cannot be relegated at the expense of the fight against corruption.
“Fighting corruption is not an economic policy, it is not that you can’t fight corruption, but you can fight it more aggressively while addressing economic issues”.
“In 2015, unemployment rate was 24 percent but today it is 40.
“In 2015, we were attracting 21 billion dollars in foreign direct investment; we attracted only 12 last year.
“Our GDP was five hundred and twenty in 2015 and per-capital was two thousand five hundred, today it is under 1900.
“Our stock market has lost over two trillion in one year”.
