Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), has stated that his experience as a trader will be useful if he is elected President of Nigeria on February 25.
The former Anambra Governor compared governance to trading, claiming that everything about governance is a form of trading.
He went on to say that Nigeria needs a leader to help it out of its current predicament and challenges, and there is no one better than him to do so.
Obi, who stated that he became a banker by accident, added that he will provide the necessary solutions to Nigeria’s challenges with his expertise in trading.
Negotiation, he believes, is an important part of governance, and his experience as a trader has taught him to accommodate everyone and determine who is a customer and who is just a passerby, preparing him to face any challenge in governance.
According to a statement from the Obi/Datti media office, he stated this on Wednesday during an interaction with some youths.
Everything about governance is trading. The negotiation and all the bilateral talks with and between countries, agencies, contractors, or workers are trading and governance requires a good trader who can negotiate well,” Obi said.
Where we are in this country now requires a leader to negotiate us out of our problems. When I say I will negotiate with agitators, it’s from my background that you must accommodate everybody into your shop whether he is buying or not and decipher who is a customer and a passerby.
Even in my passport, it’s shown that I am a trader, but some said I should be a banker because I was the chairman of a bank. But I became a banker by accident.
My love is in trading because in it, you are equipped to face any challenges including governance, the LP candidate submitted.