Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, in the last general election, says Nigerian has no reason to be poor.
According to him, the country has enough arable lands to cultivate to feed her people.
The LP presidential candidate made this remark while reacting to his award as Politician of the Year by the Leadership Newspaper.
The politician spoke amidst recent donation of 25,000 tonnes of wheat to Nigeria by the government of Ukraine.
The donation comes on the heels of the hardship facing Nigerians, many of who has taken to the street in protest demanding that immediate action be taken by the government to end the situation.
Recently also, many angry and hungry Nigerians have been looting government and private facilities in search of food to eat.
Obi however said there is enough land in the country and continent of Africa to grow food to feed the population, saying it is an embarrassment for a country like Nigeria with sich enormous land resources to depend on donations for survival.
What the country needs at the moment, he said, is the right leadership that can move things in the right direction.
Obi said, “We have no reasons to be poor. Poverty should never be part of our lives especially in the North.
“Ukraine has no reason to give us grain. Niger State can feed Nigeria, Africa with over 73, 000 square meters of land.
“The two biggest states in the North-East, Borno with over 70,000 square metres of land and Taraba, are four times the size of Belgium that is exporting food. There is so much we can do in the country if we have the right leadership.
“The more you remove people out of poverty, the more you have less criminals.”
Checks reveal that Nigeria has over 7,442,00 square meters of land, which Obi said is enough to feed the contineñt.
