2023: Oshiomhole blames Peter Obi for Nigeria’s unemployment

Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s (LP) presidential candidate, has been charged with contributing to Nigeria’s high unemployment rate.

Adams Oshiomhole, a former governor of Edo State, said that Obi’s importation of finished items increased unemployment in Nigeria.

The claim was made by the All Progressives Congress, APC, senatorial candidate for Edo North at the weekend kickoff of his campaign in the Auchi region of the State.

The largest retail centre in Abuja is owned by Obi, and everything inside is imported.

“If he is selling foreign wines, clothing, and other goods, he is contributing to why Nigeria is declining because he is bringing unemployment to Nigeria and generating jobs overseas,” Oshiomhole added.

According to statistics, Nigeria had a 33 per cent unemployment rate as of the third quarter of 2020.

The majority of Nigerians and analysts blamed the APC for the high unemployment rate in the nation.

Obi had made ensuring that Nigeria becomes a production economy the centrepiece of his campaign after emerging as the LP’s presidential candidate.