A Presidential aspirant under the banner of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Peter Obi, has said that if elected as President in 2023, his administration would but behind bars any of its official caught spending the American currency, Dollars.
Mr. Obi said this, on Sunday, on The Discourse, a public affairs show on Classic FM.
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The presidential hopeful said it was an abomination for government officials to be spending the currency of another country while manufacturers who need the foreign currency do not have it.
Said he, “Manufacturers are looking for dollars for spares, for inputs, for critical goods, but they can’t find it and we the politicians are sharing dollars.
“Let me tell you, one of the measures of any country’s economic stability is the currency. It is an abomination that somebody serving in government is spending another country’s currency, and I say it any day, If I’m president today, no government official would spend dollars, you go to jail. we have a currency.”
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On the alleged gang up to prevent him from getting the PDP presidential ticket, Mr. Obi said he was not worried about any plan against him in the PDP.
He continued, “I am not worried about that. There has always been a gang up against me. The worst they can do is to throw me out of the party. For me, I am not desperate to be president of Nigeria.
“I want you to know that I am desperate to see Nigeria work. I feel the pain that a country that has all the potential to work is not working, so, for me, it’s not a gang up, people don’t like my brand of politics” he said.
