I’ll Return Nigeria’s Status As Top Foreign Direct Investment Recipient ― Atiku

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has regretted Nigeria’s loss to Ghana of its preeminent position as the top recipient of foreign direct investment in West Africa, assuring that he will restore the country’s status if elected.

In a statement he personally issued in Abuja on Wednesday, he said he received with a heavy heart the news that the Republic of Ghana has overtaken Nigeria as West Africa’s largest recipient of foreign direct investment.

He recalled that for all the years that the PDP governed Nigeria, including the eight years of which he was Vice President, Nigeria always set the pace for Africa in terms of foreign direct investment and became the number one recipient of FDI in Africa in 2013 under a PDP administration.

“I foresaw this happening, which is why I was in the United States last week to get foreign investors who have been divesting from Nigeria, to return their investments. Prior to my US trip, I had undertaken similar missions in Europe and the Orient.

“It is of particular importance to understand why Nigeria has become an economic pariah under the present administration leading to us becoming the world headquarters for extreme poverty. When you have a leader who habitually travels abroad to de-market his own nation and its economy, things like this are bound to happen.

“It is further exacerbated when that same leader stubbornly blames his predecessors for problems he caused, while at the same time taking credit for achievements and progress initiated and delivered by those same leaders he makes a habit of denigrating.

“Economic challenges will bow only to proper agenda. Propaganda has no effect on them and will only make a bad situation worse, as we see today.

“Therefore, I solemnly declare to Nigerians, that if I am elected President on February 16, 2019, I will be Nigeria’s Chief Marketing Officer, and will never speak ill of our economy, our polity and our youths. My utterances, both at home and abroad, will be used to lift Nigeria’s economy because Atiku means JOBS.

“I believe in jobs, opportunities, being united and it is time to get Nigeria Working Again.

“I, therefore, make this promise to all Nigerians, elect me, and I assure you the good people of Nigeria, that we will regain our status as Africa’s top recipient of FDI.”


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