The 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi has slammed Nigeria\u2019s 1411-member delegation to the ongoing United Nation\u2019s climate summit in Dubai.<\/p>\n
Obi, in a thread of tweets via his X account on Sunday, said: \u201cIn a twist of sad irony, let me congratulate the giant of Africa, Nigeria, for matching the great China, with the same number of contingents at the ongoing COP28 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Nigeria\u2019s contingent to COP28 totaled 1411, the same number as the Chinese contingents.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNigeria has more people living in \u2018Multi-Dimensional\u2019 poverty than China, despite China having seven times our population<\/p>\n
READ MORE:\u00a0\u201cWork Together To Dismantle Criminality, Corruption\u201d \u2013 Peter Obi Charges Youths<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cMost 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.<\/p>\n \u201cThis huge contingent is out at public expense at a time when most Nigerians can hardly afford food and basic needs as a result of economic hardship.<\/p>\n \u201cI 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.<\/p>\n \u201cAs we have kept emphasizing, we must stop waste as a a tradition of our government and nation. We urgently need to cut the cost of governance and invest in production.<\/p>\n \u201cWe need to de-emphasize unnecessary ceremony and showmanship as a mode of government behaviour.<\/p>\n \u201cWe need to tie spending to necessity and national Priority. A New Nigeria is possible. We only need to do the reasonable and the necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n In a twist of sad irony, let me congratulate the giant of Africa, Nigeria, for matching the great China, with the same number of contingents at the ongoing COP28 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Nigeria’s contingent to COP28 totaled 1411, the same number as the Chinese<\/p>\n \u2014 Peter Obi (@PeterObi) December 3, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n
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