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A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Segun Showunmi has criticised Peter Obi, accusing him of always demarketing the Country. Showunmi is a former Spokesperson for the Atiku Abubakar/Peter Obi 2019 Campaign Organisation.

Obi, the Labour Party Presidential Candidate in the 2023 General Election, in a delivered lecture at the Johns Hopkins University stated that Nigeria's Poverty index is today, higher than that of China, Indonesia and Vietnam combined together.

Yesterday, at Johns Hopkins University, USA, I honoured the invitation to speak on "Politics and Change in Nigeria" from Professor Peter Lewis, the famous author of "Growing Apart: comparing Indonesia and Nigeria".

In discussing this very critical issue, which directly impacts the direction of a nation, I pointed out that the failure of a nation depends largely on its Political Leadership. Competent, capable and comionate political leadership, with integrity, will help nations to achieve sustainable growth and development.

In my speech, I tried to assess 3 of our comparable nations - China, Vietnam and Indonesia, from 1990 till date.
In 1990, the year the measurement of the Human Development Index (HDI) was started, these 3 comparable nations, including Nigeria, were all classified under the medium category of the HDI measurement. 35 years later, 3 of these nations have moved up to the High category of HDI while Nigeria has fallen into the low category.

Within the same period of 35 years, from 1990 to 2025, the GDP Per Capita of these comparable nations have all improved. As of 1990, while Nigeria had a GDP per capita of $556, China had $317, Indonesia had $578, and Vietnam had only $99. Nigeria, obviously, had higher GDP per capita than China, while Vietnam had less than one-fifth of Nigeria's per capita. Today, Nigeria's per capita is about one-fifth of Indonesia's ($5000) and Vietnam's (4400) GDP per capita and below one-tenth of China's (1300) GDP per capita.

In the area of poverty, Nigeria with about 50 million poor people, had the least number of people in poverty in 1990 than any of the three countries. While China had about 750 million people living in poverty, Indonesia and Vietnam had 85 million and 60 million poor people, respectively. China alone had about 15 times the number of poor people than Nigeria. Today, however, Nigeria has more poor people than these 3 countries combined.

The question then is, what exactly did these countries do to be able to achieve the desired growth and development? That is where political leadership comes in. These comparable nations, and indeed other progressive nations, unlike Nigeria, have competent leadership with character, capacity and comion, committed to prioritizing investment in critical areas of developmental measures; Education, Health, and pulling people out of poverty.

A New Nigeria is POssible. -PO

Showunmi replies:

With due respect @PeterObi these measurements are faulty. Extremely skewed for those who manipulate these figures have no metrics to measure the informal sector in Nigeria. You need to stop this, especially at international forums. You ought to place the burden on them and their crazy neoliberal policy and its deep state manipulations that put undue pressure on Africa! No one who wishes to lead a nation called Nigeria must be the de-marketer on steroids of the same country he or she wishes to lead. Stop it immediately.

Are those you wish to impress outside our country not aware of the multiplier effect of their destabilization of the Sahel and its unfortunate consequences on Nigeria. You need to cut the crap. #NigeriaFirst.

In some other posts by Showunmi....

@fgn, @officialABAT, @NGRSenate, @NGRPresident, @HouseNGR. Going forward we must put it in our constitution that NOBODY MUST DEVALUE OUR NAIRA EVER AGAIN. Without a referendum. Enough of all this Bogus Data that does not take into consideration the skewed system.@PeterObi copy!!

Shall @PeterObi’s play only be misery ask him for a practical solution he gets confused. Our salvation is not outside our country. If he loves Indonesia so much he can relocate there. Those who love Nigeria will be inspired to fix it.

Who is begging to be Nigerian? A failed entity. We were forced to belong hence no apology. We have a native homeland in Eastern Niger. Indigenous and free people.

Showummi is now an informant with one leg in APC.

What has kept Nigeria in a messy state is that a typical Nigerian hates to hear the truth about this shithole.

So saying the truth is now bad? the same way you people attacked Kemi in UK for saying the truth about our police force?

Nigeria has demarketed itself by allowing the wrong leaders to sit in aso rock. Peter obi has absolutely nothing to do with it

samfrancis1:
you guys are usually funny.. people keep quiet to solve there problems or at least tell people you’re sure is going to help.. you don’t tell people who would not help your problem..

You're extremely myopic. So I have a problem and should hide it because I am ashamed to tell the person that cannot help me?

Don't you feel it's a possibility that the person who can't help you actually knows someone who can? huh?

You guys and your brains

AHNIMALS defending the indefensible

Druggie in Aso Rock is not continuosly demarketing the country, confused tribal clowns in the high places

Obi is a confused Conman.

Not only him.
Also the 'set' of homo sapiens who refer to nigeria as zoo.

Na dem!


Ehn-ehn, den don dey mark one-by-one
vvvvv

walozanga:
When Truth is bitter they call it demarketing

LadyExcellency:
Who is begging to be Nigerian? A failed entity. We were forced to belong hence no apology. We have a native homeland in Eastern Niger. Indigenous and free people.

'Go', they refused; Ngwanu, 'stay'', they still refuse.

fergie001:
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Segun Showunmi has criticised Peter Obi, accusing him of always demarketing the Country. Showunmi is a former Spokesperson for the Atiku Abubakar/Peter Obi 2019 Campaign Organisation.

Obi, the Labour Party Presidential Candidate in the 2023 General Election, in a delivered lecture at the Johns Hopkins University stated that Nigeria's Poverty index is today, higher than that of China, Indonesia and Vietnam combined together.



Showunmi replies:


In some other posts by Showunmi....

If u need job..come out directly

When Truth is bitter they call it demarketing

IPIGSRSHALLOW:

Obi is a confused Conman.

And you're a CORN fused CORN man 🌽

This man’s desperation to be president is making him run mad, he will be itted as a mental patient in 2027 when his coffin is finally nailed

Wait for them, they will either accuse Showumi of wanting decamp to APC or ing Tinubu, because he's a Ronu, even both, because he corrected the empty brain pitobi

Peter Obi is never a leader. He doesn’t posses the qualities. I just wonder why many are carried away with his pretense. No matter what a good leader won’t de market his country on a foreign land.

America has so much rots but they won’t talk about it. They even go far in making the best part of it in movies for us to watch in order to buy into their standards

Since your likes have been using propaganda how much has it helped in marketing Nigeria.
Truth is actually bitter

Speaking the truth means a different thing to agbadorians, nawaoh...can Nigeria economy be compared with that of China, India, Indonesia and Vietnam, these countries have more population than Nigeria ,in 1990 Nigeria was doing relatively great ,we had so many foreigners here even from Ghana , Cameroon China and even Europe, our country was destroyed through mismanagement of our national resources and corruption, while these nations had stringent laws against corruption....but here politicians steal public funds and give peanuts to ers who will come online to defend them...can Nigeria compete with those countries PO mentioned in of wealth, infrastructure, education, science and technology especially in health care delivery....we decieve ourselves in to country and is not helping us at all...

PO is bitter that Nigerians rejected him....

Let him keep demarketing Nigeria...

Truth be told Obi is not a smart politician….

I have noticed that whatever Obi says… either good or bad it must be constructed in a way to masturbate on …. And he will loose followers, fans and voters….

Peter obi should learn the act of silence…

Very soon probably before the end of today RENO will come out with his own insults against obi in form of freedom of speech

APc mole in PDP

But that is the Gospel truth. But your point is noted

Nonsense.
Anyone who is proud of how Nigeria is at present should be sentenced to firing squad.
The person is worse than the the devil

Lol. Who be this one?

They can't even hide the bigrotry. E dey ooze steady.

Being identified as PDP Chieftain is already should be de-marketing enough to this hypocrite.

LadyExcellency:
Who is begging to be Nigerian? A failed entity. We were forced to belong hence no apology. We have a native homeland in Eastern Niger. Indigenous and free people.

Peter Obi is so begging to be a Nigerian that he desires to be its president.

Anakogheri

But that is the Gospel truth. Are the politicians not demarkeing the citizens? But your point is noted.

Britishpea:
Peter Obi is never a leader. He doesn’t posses the qualities. I just wonder why many are carried away with his pretense. No matter what a good leader won’t remarks his country on a foreign land.

America has so much rots but they won’t talk about it. They even go far in making the best part of it in movies for us to watch in order to buy into their standards

Hypocrite,did you say anything when buhari went outside and was calling Nigeria youth lazy

He hates Nigeria but he wants to rule same country badly.

Isn't that an hypocritical madness?

I would rather go on exile than have this hater of Nigeria become my President.

Obi is just a confused individual. He thinks you win elections by going abroad to speak Ill of your country.

And yes if he loves Indonesia, he can relocate there. He had the chance to turn Anambra around, all he could do was to invest in beer business that has turned out to be a meaningless investment

man is a sore loser and he wont win the presidential election anytime soon.
he can be a serial contestant like Mr atiku.

LadyExcellency:
Who is begging to be Nigerian? A failed entity. We were forced to belong hence no apology. We have a native homeland in Eastern Niger. Indigenous and free people.

Where MNK is your Supreme leader and Simon Ekpa your Prime Minister. You have a country in East where Monday is compulsory holiday a flourish region breeding develooers in Asian prisons a place where youth flee from but only visit once in a year to show off.

May God grant you your beautiful 5plots in your lifetime