The Vice Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Peter Obi, has criticised the anti-corruption war of the All Progressives Congress (APC), insisting that it killed jobs in the process.
Obi said this at the Vice Presidential debate.
He argued that war against graft cannot be a government policy but a means to an end.
Obi said,
"It is not that you cannot fight corruption but you can fight it more aggressively while addressing economic issues. For example, in 2015, unemployment was 24 percent. Today, it is 40 per cent. In 2015, we attracted $21bn in Foreign Direct Investment but we attracted only $12bn last year. Our GDP was $500bn in 2015 while per capita was $2, 500 today it is under $1, 900.
"If you look at our stock market, we have lost over N2trn in one year. So, that is not a policy. You're just fighting corruption, you are not creating jobs. You cannot shut down your shop and be chasing criminals."
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