Former Anambra state governor and the Labour Party ( LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi has met with the Director General of World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala at the World Trade Organization.
Okonjo-Iweala made this announcement via her verified Twitter handle on Wednesday.
Her post reads: “With Governor @PeterObi at the @WTO discussing Nigeria’s economic recovery and the role of trade.”
The Anambra -born politician is on a tour to Canada, Germany, London, Rome, the United States, Switzerland, as part of preparations for next year’s general election.
The Nigeria in diaspora is making plans to open a crowdfunding portals for the presidential candidate to help during campaigns and electioneering.
Meanwhile, another prominent member of the Labour party, Professor Pat Utomi, recently revealed that the crowdfunding portals Nigerians in the Diaspora planned to launch for Obi, would be unveiled in few days time.
Recall that Nigerians in the diaspora had formed groups to launch crowdfunding initiatives for Obi. They planned to unveil crowdfunding portals with a target to raise $150 million from Obi’s supporters in the diaspora and N100 billion from those in Nigeria.
However, the plan by Nigerians abroad to create the crowdfunding portals has generated divergent views from legal practitioners in the country.
Although, Obi has urged Nigerians in disapora not to relent in contributing their quota to Nation-Building and electioneering in the country.
He pledged that his administration, if elected, would have zero tolerance for corruption and cut cost of governance.
“Our total commitment to transparency and accountability in government business is the only credible way to achieve limited to zero corruption.
“Africa will remain the centrepiece of our foreign policy. We will improve Nigeria’s diplomatic sphere of influence via peacekeeping, trade, and investment initiatives. We will pursue aggressively modalities for raising the national Internet penetration, as well as increase contribution of ICT to overall economic growth to aid national development.
“We intend to lay special emphasis on critical infrastructure, especially power, to ensure a clear measurable increase of 200 per cent of today’s generation, transmission and distribution within the shortest time possible through public private partnership.
“We will pursue intangible assets of good governance, rule of law, security of lives and properties, through an aggressive increase in personnel and equipment and inclusive training of operatives in our security agencies.
“We will emphasise patriotism, national interest, and national morale, quality of government, political will and character, which are all complimentary to the other assets. We will ensure that we have these assets in place and stress asset optimisation.
“Thinking through 2023 and beyond, we must think seriously about a leadership that is imbued with competence, capacity, credibility and commitment. The 4 Cs will be required to turn Nigeria around. Patriotism cannot be imposed; just like respect, it must be earned through dedication, responsiveness, active engagement, orientation, and prioritising of Nigerians in diaspora. The ripple effect will be rapid and will rub off positively on the country’s economy.”