www.odogwublog.com reports that the
former Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi has made a strong case
for paradigm shift in Nigeria in all aspects of life among Nigerians,
as well as in all aspects of national development. Obi was speaking
yesterday at Lagos at an event organized by Potters House called
"Paradigm Change."
Obi
said that Nigerians daily demanded change from their leaders in other
to midwife a new Nigeria, but he insisted that the most important change
should be in the way Nigerians think. "We must get our thinking right
and every other change will follow. Nigerians, including Peter Obi, must
learn to think about selflessness and the virtues of service. Nigerians
must learn to think about what to produce and not what to share.
Nigerians must think about the country and her future and not about
houses they own in different parts of the world", Obi said.
Speaking
further, Obi decried a situation where over 10 million Nigerians are
out of school; where 4 million Nigerians lost their jobs in 2017; where
unemployment has moved from 38% to 40% in January. Obi said such
negative indices were as a result of poor planning or total lack of
planning, caused by election of people without any track of record in
managing men and resources.
Obi
said that for Nigeria to get it right, that those in authority must
invest heavily in education and must start seeing resources committed to
education as investment rather than expenses.
Other
speakers, Pastor Orhonor, Debora Williams, Pojo Oyemade and Tony Rapu
agreed with Obi that what Nigeria needed urgently was paradigm shift
from the way things are done to doing them better.
We need Paradigm Change in Nigeria - Peter Obi
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