The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has advised Nigerians against trying to relocate overseas, saying those who have done so are suffering.
He said the country is so blessed that her citizens need not seek greener pastures elsewhere.
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Tinubu made the statement on Wednesday while addressing a campaign rally in Enugu State on Wednesday.
He urged Nigerians to perish relocation plans if he is finally voted into office.
The former Lagos State governor also said some Nigerians who ran abroad for greener pastures ended up facing hardships.
“Those who are running overseas are suffering. We have been there. Anybody who tells you that you cannot do something, pray you can do it,’’ he said.
He said those running abroad are ‘suffering’, noting that he had been overseas before and saw it all.
“People running away to Canada and Britain… suffer suffer. We have been there, we have seen them all. God bless Nigeria,” he said.
The former governor of Lagos said citizens should be ready to make sacrifices for the good of the country.
“I’m pragmatic, a thinker, a doer, a blessed man, a brilliant man. The hope is here. The success is here,” he said.
Tinubu said the governments of the south-east should be ready to partner with the federal government to turn the geo-political zone into an industrial hub–a goal he said he is ready to pursue if elected president.
“If the federal government collaborates with you if you elect me as the president – [there will] be an industrial hub for Enugu,” he said.
“For Imo, Ebonyi, Anambra, Abia – deep sea ports and fabricating engines. Enugu will become an industrial hub, greater than before. There will be jobs for all of you. You have incredible mineral resources to propel economic recovery.
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“You are also an agricultural powerhouse that can produce many cash crops.”
He called on Nigerians to get their permanent voters’ cards (PVCs), because it is a “liberation card”.
“Go and pick your PVC, no matter how much they try to frustrate you,” he said.
“Don’t be frustrated. That PVC is a liberation card, a success card, it is a gold mine. Don’t kid with it.”