Nwachukwu Anakwenze, a presidential aspirant from the Peoples Democratic Party in the United States, met with former President Olusegun Obasanjo in his penthouse at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library in Abeokuta on Thursday.
After the brief encounter, Anakwenze told reporters that Nigeria should have become a manufacturing nation in order to be considered the leader of black nations.
Nigeria should have been an export nation of modern devices such as computers, automobiles, and aircraft, according to the presidential hopeful, given the avalanche of God-given natural riches.
Past Nigerian leaders’ lack of insight in combining natural and human resources into lucrative endeavors, he claimed, was to blame for the country’s economic decline.
Anakwenze also chastised the APC-led government for taking out loans to pay the budget for 2022.
If elected, he promised that the PDP government he would lead would focus on young empowerment.
“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 up. I will give scholarships and skill acquisition and government soft loans to drive their businesses.
“(The) 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.”
On the subject of health, the PDP stalwart stated that every region of the country should have a specialist hospital to deal with major bodily surgery.
According to him, this will discourage foreign medical trips by Nigerians.
“I manage 4,000 health doctors in the 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 stops working, we can replace them with another one. Prostrate should not be a deadly disease in Nigeria.
“We will bring experts from the US to train our indigenous doctors on these special treatments.
“In America, prostate is like having catarrh. In America, Nigerians are top in education; why is it that when they come here, they fail?
“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 detribalised 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.”
