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Nigeria’s Large COP28 Delegation: Compete With China On Production, Stop The Wastes,’ Obi Tells Presidency

The Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party in the February 25, 2023 election, Peter Obi, on Sunday admonished Nigeria to strive to compete with China in the area of production and not on the size of delegations to specialized conference of experts.

Obi, in series of tweets in his X handle on Sunday in reaction to the trending large number of Nigeria delegations to the United Nations COP28 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), decried the waste and wrong imitation of a country dutifully pulling their people out of poverty.

According to reports from Dubai, Nigeria equals China with 1,411 contingents to the conference, the highest in the global event aside from the host UAE.

But in a satirical response to the size of Nigeria’s contingent, Obi said: “In a twist of sad irony. Let me congratulate the giant of Africa, Nigeria, for matching the great China, with the same number of contingent at the ongoing COP28 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Nigeria’s contingent to COP28 totaled 1,411, the same number as the Chinese contingent.

“Meanwhile, while China’s budget for 2024 is about $4 trillion, about $2,860 per head; Nigeria’s budget is about $33 billion, about $165 per head. China has a high Human Development Index, HDI, with a ranking of 79 out of 191 countries measured, and Nigeria has a low HDI, with a ranking of 163 out of 191 countries measured. Nigeria has more people living in ‘Multi-Dimensional’ poverty than China, despite China having seven times our population.

“Most importantly, the vast majority of those in the Nigerian delegation to COP28 are either non-relevant – civil servants or relations, friends, and hangers-on of high government officials. Most of them hardly understand or have anything to do with Climate Change.

“This huge contingent is at public expense and at a time when most Nigerians can hardly afford food and basic needs as a result of economic hardship. I pray earnestly that a day will come soon enough when we can focus on competing with China on productivity and the miracle of migrating the highest number of its citizens out of poverty over a relatively short time.

“As we have kept emphasizing, we must stop waste as an addition to our government and nation. We urgently need to cut the cost of governance and invest in production.”

Obi finally stated: “We need to de-emphasize unnecessary ceremony and showmanship as a mode of government behaviour. We need to tie spending to necessity and national Priority pointing out that a New Nigeria is possible but we only need to do the reasonable and the necessary. – PO.”

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