welcome to the african leadership series where we bring you great inspirational speeches of african
leaders it gives me great pleasure and honor to bring to the podium chief his excellency peter obi
that all africa has been so used in that degrading manner we have been reduced to that and everything
but as a philosopher i always tell people whenever people talk to me in a manner that i feel bad
i go into myself and reassess and they re-examine myself unexamined life is not worth living
why would anybody prefer people from norway against people from africa
that is the question because it said why don't we have people for no way then africa
they asked me that in here and i asked them i said it's very simple norway has one trillion
sovereign wealth fund and their per capita is seventy thousand dollars and that of africa
is two thousand that's important it's for africans to go back i've listened to fella
wonderful and i'm sure you'll get more from ben bruce and dorian and everybody
what is what question i asked myself and you see our country today the way it is and everything
everybody say hi we're going to change it let's ask ourselves how did we get here
that is the question how did we arrive at this junction where when i'm being talked about in
this manner we now have agitations boko haram hess men all sorts of agitations from everywhere
whether it's in the east in the west everywhere can tell you it's going to worsen
this is what you have when you have it is cumulative effect
of leadership failure over the years and it's not going to stop because you have millions of
your people i was just talking to somebody this morning and i said listen people are protesting
in iran they're not protesting in nigeria but people don't know that the protests will come if
iranians can protest iran has a gdp of 400 billion with 79 million people their per capita is 6050
naira fifty dollars and they're protesting nigeria per capita is two thousand so the person with six
thousand is protesting we're not iranian 74 000 megawatts of electricity we generate for and
they're protesting iran has the unemployment of 11 percent and newton employment of 25 percent we
have unemployment of 19.8 and youth unemployment of 61 percent so those youths who protest one day
those of us who happen to be lucky to live in ukraine victoria island i said to them every day
if we don't look for food for those who live in a jaguar one day we will not be living
so my people what you need to do is
i believe that you must invest in nigeria you must bring your investment
what else can you do well above all the last last request is most critical
we must change the managers of nigeria
and somebody asks how about your life you ask that question you know why ask that question
nigeria has become a case of where lunatics took over the asylum and you know what lunatics do
when you want to take anything back from them they create a thing as if there's a war so you
run away the madman comes in hey everybody i don't want to touch this man that's what
they are doing we need to take it back we need to become as a matter as they are and take it back
they can't manage it you have a critical problem the managers of your country i'm not talking
about president or governor anybody fella hit it the lower people none of you knows who is in
your local government every local government in nigeria receives 100 million naira every month
go and look for their chairman they are nowhere to be found
and the same thing goes with your states you have a situation today where people
are going starting for several months and they're celebrating their bad day
how can you say anything like that how can you be celebrating when you you're ruining people's life
people are dying and you're celebrating and people are watching it on tv it's a crisis
and the only people that can stop that crisis is you they can't stop it telling people in
lunch that when i i find it amazing even people in america are part of the problem
as governor come here i know what people tell me this man bodies are this my body says don't worry
where are you going to buy your own why would i buy a house in america i don't live in america
i have nothing to do with america it only cost me 200 dollars to come here and go why would i buy a
house americans you live in america i'm a nigerian i live in norway that is where i should live
i go to south africa i go to everywhere i say buy a house in south africa buy
how many south africans that bother us in nigeria how many americans have brought us in nigeria
so why would nigerians come here you live here yes you can own a house yeah
but not people i come here as governor nigerians will tell you oh let's bring somebody i have a
party why would i leave nigeria to come and do party here no way i should come here as
a beggar for you to give me something to take home not to come and celebrate here
i have people who need food in the country and nigerians are celebrating here and you go there
and become them is excellency when you should push them to go back and do their work at home
so start telling them if your governor comes here or local government chairman
do not be part of celebrating him tell him to go home and fix what he's supposed to do
don't encourage him to waste the resources he didn't come with his money he came with your
money we're asking you to bring back your own what we need to do is to manage that which is there
effectively your country to tell you how bad your country has gone in 1980
nigeria as a country had a foreign reserve of ten point five trillion five five billion dollars 10.5
china is 10. south korea that somebody mentioned here is three
three billion the country was far bigger than south korea sad more money than china
china had a population of today china population is 1 billion 317. nigeria is only 186 million
but what is happening today china has in savings 3 trillion and we have 30.
we had 10 they had 10 we had 10.5 they had 10.
today they had 3 trillion we had we have that one percent of what they have today south korea
savings is 417 billion and we have 30. what went wrong here and i can show you nations or nations
we are supposed to be part of the so-called
office of nations now we have put us to mint nation we're supposed to be not
meant nation because we miss where we're supposed to be where china everybody is
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