Lack of foresight by past leaders responsible for Nigeria’s economic woes – Anakwenze

By Damiola Ajibola

A presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr. Nwachukwu Anakwenze, has identified lack of foresight by past nation leaders, as one of the factors responsible for its economic woes.

Anakwenze stated this on Thursday when he paid a visit to the Abeokuta home of former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo.

The presidential aspirant noted that the country ought to have developed in all areas of human endeavors, especially the manufacturing sector.

He submitted that the country is endowed with avalanche of God-given natural resources, lamenting that the country rather than being an exporting nation had solely relied on importation of goods.

He faulted the APC led government for plunging the country into huge debt with excessive borrowing to fund the 2022 budget.

“Nigeria should be leader of all black nations if we have smart and intelligent leaders.

“We need to start investing in the youths. The youths have been destroyed and drowned. My job is to rescue the young people and put them in place to save Nigeria. The old politicians’ time is off. I will give scholarships and skill acquisition and government soft loans to drive their business.

“APC is a failed government, they are taking loans, we don’t need to take loans to service our economy, we need to become an industrial and manufacturing nation. We need to be making cars, trains, and ships, we need to be an export nation of computers. Our young generation can do that. I will empower the youth to make that happen.”

Anakwenze promised to ensure good health care delivery if he elected into office, saying each region of the country should have specialist hospital to deal with major surgery of the body.

According to him, this will discourage foreign medical trip to overseas by Nigerians.

“I manage 4,000 health doctors in USA. We need specialist hospitals in every region of the country that can do everything like eyes, nose, ear, brain, bone, prostate. In America if your heart and kidney stopped working, we can replace them with another one. Prostrate should not be a deadly disease in Nigeria.

“We will bring experts from US to train our indigenous doctors on these special treatment.

“In America, prostate is like having catarrh, in America, Nigerians are top in education, why is it that when they come here, they failed. 

“On energy, we should have 24hours power. We have the flaring gas on our rivers. We can convert the rivers gas into turbine and generate electricity from it.

“I’m a detribalized Nigerian. I will share power among the six geopolitical zones. Nobody will feel left out. The North are good in agriculture, I don’t have any problem working with everyone,” he added.

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