I Look Forward To Nigeria Where Leader Knows Classmates, Have School Certificate — Peter Obi

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2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Mr Peter Obi, has said he was looking forward to a Nigeria where only those who know their classmates and have good and undoubted academic certificates can be leaders.

This was because he regretted that the country was busy celebrating people with criminal pasts rather than those that have excelled in their chosen careers, vowing to change the narratives if availed of the opportunity of leading the country.

The former Anambra State Governor who spoke yesterday, in Abuja, while delivering a keynote address at the graduation ceremony of students of Pacesetters Academy, Abuja, emphasized the need for the country to invest more in education as according to him, “without education, there cannot be meaningful development.”

“The politician, who said his presidential ambition was alive, said,”In the next Nigeria, you will not be a leader unless you attended a school, unless you know your classmates unless you have a good certificate whereby if you bring your certificate, nobody will doubt it.”

Obi, while also noting that education was the most important thing that any nation needed, said “What differentiates development and underdeveloped was education.”

“For me, education is the most important thing that any nation needs. What differentiates developed and underdeveloped is education. It is the foundation. Even when you go out and people tell you about measures of development being hinged on the human development index and they tell you it is education, health and per capital income,I will tell you that of all these three, health is about education,if you don’t have a well-educated society, you can’t have a healthy society,” he said.

Noting also that,” You can’t put people out of poverty without education”, the 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party, said “The more people are educated, the more they pull themselves out of poverty and that is critical. “

He spoke further:”The more you put people out of poverty, the more you reduce humanity and you can’t do that unless you invest in education. The more people are educated, the more they put themselves out of poverty and that is critical. You can’t have 20 million out-of-school children and think of development tomorrow. We must have to invest in education.

“If you follow 2022 world population of countries, the population of Norway, the population of Island, the population of Singapore and the population of Dubai, if you put the population of these big successful countries together, we are talking of the population of 19.7 million and we are talking of 20 million out-of-school children, so we are more than population of these four successful, thriving, respectable developed countries put together out of school. So imagine what it will be if we invest in education. So investment in education is critical.,” he said.