The Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has said Nigeria has continued to struggle since independence because the country’s leaders were elected on the basis of ethnicity, religion and other “biases”. Mr Obi spoke on Friday when he appeared as a guest on the American-based television station, CNN. Nigeria is now, not just in a physical mess, (but) it is at the last stage to collapse,” Mr Obi stated. He criticised the Nigerian government for not repairing the country’s refineries to boost oil production, saying there was no reason the country’s refineries should not be put to use. You can use today to decide to remove fuel subsidies and use the resources to support critical areas of production,” Mr Obi said.

Source: CNN September 17, 2022 20:01 UTC