Peter Obi’s Manifesto is disingenuous and ImPOssible -A look at Multidimensional Poverty
Let me state from the onset that I do not believe that Peter Obi has either the competence or the capacity to be President of Nigeria and at this critical stage of Nigeria’s development in particular, PO is not what we need as we do not have the luxury of experimenting with an unprepared and/or accidental candidate. However, since he is one of the contenders for the post of president of our dear nation, it behoves on public commentators such as myself to assess the man through his offerings and the best place to start is to critically evaluate his manifesto which I have finally been able to lay my hands on. I will be doing this in bits, section by section and this write up starts with the Introductory part of the Obi/Datti document pages 7-11 subtitled “Context” The context reads like a horror story and is pretty depressing. PO/Datti see no hope whatsoever in this country where both of them have excelled, one as a container economist, the other an ‘edupreneur’. The manifesto, apar...