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Mr. Peter Obi, has said efforts of the Federal Government in seeking foreign investors abroad is waste of time if environment for businesses to thrive is not put in place.

This is coming on the heels of President Bola Tinubu’s statement on the sidelines of the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York, United States, where he told American entrepreneurs to feel free and safe to invest in Nigeria.

At the Nigeria-U.S. Executive Business Round table, the president, listed measures he said he had taken to boost confidence of the global investment community in Nigeria, which included forming the fiscal, monetary and tax policy environment.

According to him: “Nigeria is an opportunity that is impossible to replicate or find elsewhere in any part of the world. We have brilliant young people who both innovate and consume at a large scale. Our entrepreneurial spirit is a major part of what makes our market totally unique, aside from demography.

“Nigerians build businesses and Nigerian businesses partner with other businesses to conduct larger business. There is enough value to spread around. Be careful of what you hear about Nigeria. You may be dissuaded out of a major opportunity that others will take up. We are here for you. We will give you all the you need to succeed and succeed abundantly.”

But speaking at an event in Enugu, Obi said foreign investors were like bees and honey and a government that does not know where the country is going is wasting time going abroad to seek investors.

“I came back here and told someone that you don’t go looking for foreign investors. Anyone going around looking for foreign investors is wasting everyone’s time. Foreign investors are like bees and honey. If you put honey here, how the bees will converge, no one will tell you. After the G20 meeting, Emmanuel Macron, French president flew to Bangladesh because the country had just ordered 10 Airbus 350s, so he had to go and see them. If you look at all the economic analysis, go and look at where Bangladesh would be in 2030 and up to 2050. But no one knows where we are going to be.

“A deputy governor was asked why he didn’t go to school and he said it doesn’t matter. But he filled it. He was the one who said, ‘I went to this school’, no one forced you. If you know that schools don’t matter, you would have said, ‘I didn’t go to school’, so that we would imagine your ingenuity as someone who didn’t go to school and was able to get to that level.

“We are now in a country where people say one thing and do something else. I asked a woman to stand on the queue and she told me that whenever she stands in a queue, she doesn’t get anything. This happened to me last year. After the tribunal decided our case, I called the woman and apologised to her. We had someone going round the world and saying that the election would be the best. It was from INEC that I heard what is called ‘real time’. Suddenly, he says he can do the election anyhow. Why didn’t you tell us this before the election, so that when we are voting, we can also behave anyhow?” Obi queried.

https://sunnewsonline.com/seeking-for-investors-abroad-waste-of-time-obi-tells-fg/?amp

Will they listen? NO

That’s the essence of trade by barter

Give me what I don’t have and take what you don’t have from me

Tinubu should lower his pride and swap experiences with Obi

Obi will teach Tinubu how to run a government

Tinubu will teach Obi how to sniff cocaine

Chikina

Obi knows the problem of Nigeria.
All this unnecessary tourism trips abroad is not necessary for now.
Fix the economy first. An average trader doesn't care whether you went to Sudan or Holland for funds...they just want to see practical change.

Fix roads
Fix electricity
Build our refineries
Increase minimum wage
End insecurity

Is that too hard for Nigerians to ask for?

Buhari came and trotted the globe.
Tinubu is towing that same path.

Is Nigeria under a siege ni?

We do not have natural disasters. We have Leadership Disaster.

Tinubu ers choking anytime PO speaks facts.

True

me for your Academic Assignment, Articles, Power points, Thesis, Proposals, Dissertations and also with good turnitin report!

iSense247:
https://sunnewsonline.com/seeking-for-investors-abroad-waste-of-time-obi-tells-fg/?amp

coming back

my man have spoken

a good Market sells itself (ahia di mma na ere oweya

Seeking investors abroad while frustrating every business start ups of Nigerian citizens?

Who is he trying to deceive?

You encourage the youths of Nigeria to distractions like betting, beers, exposures to porn and thereto masturbation, Feminizing men thereby crumbling the society.

You are now inviting investors from abroad to come and enslave the youths in the country the more.

There are Nigerians who have so much money but are not ready to invest in Nigeria, because investing in the current Nigeria is like betting on the over and under punting markets.

My Advice to every man here is,

Take care of health, The hospitals will not help you as they are in business.

Sharpen your skills to become talents and monetize them, The government's would not provide you jobs.

a tribe of men that believes in daily betterment and progress of a man.

Don't be distracted and deceived by the Matrix.

I recommend you to search and IAJ ONLINE on telegram.

that tribe of men and get better together.

I dedicate "Risky by Davido" to any foreign investors that wishes to come to Nigeria for investment

Scolivilio:
Let's all go back to the farm

E no suppose better for you

Una go vote rubbish finish when the rubbish backfires you’ll be saying let’s go back to farm

Tinubu must develop Nigeria like he developed Lagos

Shebi una say he spent 20yrs planning on how to be a president

So this was what a dunce brains could come up with after 20 good years of medication

Taylor92:
Will they listen? NO

That’s the essence of trade by barter

Give me what I don’t have and take what you don’t have from me

Oga Tailor

Trade by barter?

Well, I think BAT should bring Peter Obi on board. He should be in charge of the economy.

I honestly believe he can turn Nigeria around just the way Anambra is now the Dubai of Africa

Druggie na mvmv na

God dey.

Stop giving out your ideas sir. Nigerians will manage the dead brain for another 4yrs

Leave that efulefu druggie

Nonsense policies, thieves in government, no steady power supply, terrorism and banditry, a drug lord as president, what exactly does Nigeria have currently that can entice investors?
One single thing.
Nothing.
Dollar is steadily climbing against the naira, before December with this tempo it is heading to 1500/$
God have mercy on my dear country.

Tell those fools.. they think running a govt is based on propagandas alone.

Really sad

I felt same way. But what do I know 🤷🏾‍♂️

They will just say in the president’s face they are coming with their investments and even draft MOU and other related documents. Days will turn to month, month will turn to years they still haven’t brought shovel to starter digging

How many presidents of the in the world are juncketing around the globe looking for investors like clueless Tinubu is doing?

Are the supposed investors coming here to dash us trillion of dollars or they are coming to make money from us?

Who is supposed to be searching for who between Tinubu and his imaginary investors?

With due respect, president Tinubu does not have sense. He is an old idiot.

The Zoo is falling and Biafra is the only solution!

Well said

God help Nigeria

It's like my Governor roaming about the 37 states of the federation and FCT looking for businessmen that will come and do business in Osun State. Does that makes sense to any sane Nigerian? Tinubu and his forty thieves do not have sense.

iSense247:
If you look at all the economic analysis, go and look at where Bangladesh would be in 2030 and up to 2050. But no one knows where we are going to be

https://sunnewsonline.com/seeking-for-investors-abroad-waste-of-time-obi-tells-fg/?amp

Obi should speak for himself alone

Yours was NEXT to nothing!

Bloody waste of time.
When e be say the process wey una President use take attain Excellency nor dey excellent.
Abegi, 2nd base jaaaare!!😒😏

Really? So have you ever seen any sane country with no foreign investors?

That is why I called you a Marxist motherfucker.

Egbon is still crying upadan.