‘I wrote consumption-to-production concept for Peter Obi’  —  YPP presidential candidate

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The presidential candidate of the Young Progressive Party (YPP), Peter Agada, has claimed that he and his team authored the “consumption-to-production” concept adopted by Peter Obi during his 2023 presidential campaign.

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Agada, who served as the Director of Finance for the Obidient campaign in the 2023 election, made the claim while discussing his experience in policy development and politics.

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According to him, he had been involved in writing public policies in Nigeria for decades and had contributed to policy documents for several politicians seeking elective offices.

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“There are things I’m struggling not to say here. A lot of these guys who are running for offices took documents off my table. Their manifestos, their programs. I’m not junior to anybody. I started writing policies in Nigeria before some people even entered politics,” Agada said.

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He said his experience in policy development dated back several decades, noting that he had been running the Congress of Nigerian Professionals for about 20 years.

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“Some of these people running for elections right now, I don’t need to call names. So we’ve been there. I run the Congress of Nigerian Professionals. This is 20 years. This is 30 years of practice,” he said.

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When asked specifically whether he was referring to Obi, Agada answered in the affirmative, saying he had personally written policies for the former Anambra State governor.

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“Of course, I wrote policies for Peter Obi. The consumption-to-production infrastructure was written by me and my team under Professor Pat Utomi,” he said.

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Agada further maintained that the policy concept originated from his team and was developed during their work with Obi.

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“Consumption to production infrastructure was from my table. Our time,” he added.

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Obi, who contested the 2023 presidential election on the platform of the Labour Party, campaigned on an agenda that emphasised moving Nigeria from a consumption-driven economy towards production, with greater emphasis on domestic manufacturing, agriculture, infrastructure and job creation.

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Agada is now seeking the presidency on the YPP platform ahead of the 2027 general election.

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