1,411 people from Dubai delegation: ‘Nigeria has more people living in poverty than China’ – Peter Obi criticizes Tinubu
Peter Obi, the Labor Party’s (LP) presidential candidate in the final normal election, criticized President Bola Tinubu for sending a lot of delegates to the COP28 local weather change convention at the moment being held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Obi’s assertion comes as Tinubu arrives in Dubai main a 1,411-member delegation, making him the African chief with the biggest entourage of any nation taking part in the convention, in keeping with an inventory from the United Nations Climate Change Agency. This was reported to be the third largest variety of delegates amongst all of the international locations taking part in the convention.
The transfer has additionally sparked a collection of backlash in opposition to Tinubu’s authorities, with many accusing it of failing to rein in wasteful spending.
Reacting to the event by way of his I lamented.
He mentioned a lot of the Nigerian delegation to COP28 have been unaffiliated civil servants or kin, mates and cronies of presidency officers who understood little about local weather change and claimed that they had nothing to do with it.
The former Anambra State governor questioned why Nigeria rivals China in phrases of whole variety of dispatches when it has more people living in “multi-dimensional” poverty than China.
He writes: “With a tragic irony, I wish to congratulate the African big Nigeria on matching and fielding the identical variety of delegations because the mighty China on the ongoing COP28 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Nigeria Delegation to COP28 There have been a complete of 1,411 people, the identical quantity because the Chinese delegation. China’s finances in 2024 is about $4 trillion, which is about $2,860 per particular person. Nigeria’s finances is about $33 billion, about $2,860 per particular person. It prices $165. China has a excessive Human Development Index (HDI), rating 79th out of 191 international locations measured, whereas Nigeria has a low HDI, rating 163rd out of 191 international locations measured. More people stay in “multidimensional” poverty in Nigeria than in China, though the variety of people living in “multidimensional” poverty is seven occasions that of China.
“Most importantly, the vast majority of the Nigerian delegation to COP28 are unaffiliated civil servants or kin, mates and cronies of presidency officers. Most of them have little understanding of local weather change. It has nothing to do with local weather change.
“This massive contingent is being despatched at public expense at a time when, because of financial hardship, most Nigerians can barely afford meals and fundamental requirements. I sincerely hope that the day will come quickly after we can deal with the miracle of lifting the best variety of people out of poverty in the shortest doable time.
“As we have continued to emphasize, we must end waste as a tradition of government and nation. We urgently need to reduce governance costs and invest in production.Government We need to de-emphasize unnecessary rituals and showmanship as a mode of behavior. We need to link spending to needs and national priorities. A new Nigeria is possible. We need to be rational. We need to do only what is targeted and necessary.”
Source: dailypost.ng