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.
Agada, who served as Director of Finance for the Obidient campaign in the 2023 election, made the claim while speaking about his experience in policy development and politics.
According to him, he has been involved in writing public policies in Nigeria for decades and has contributed to policy documents for several politicians seeking elective offices.
“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.
He added that his experience in policy development spans several decades, noting that he has been running the Congress of Nigerian Professionals for about 20 years.
“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.
When He was asked if he was specifically referring to Obi, Agada answered in the affirmative, claiming that he personally wrote policies for the former Anambra State governor.
“Of course, I wrote policies for Peter Obi. The consumptionto production infrastructure was written by me and my team under Professor Pat Utomi,” he said.
Agada further insisted that the concept originated from his team and was developed during their work with Obi.
“Consumption to production infrastructure was from my table. Our time,” he added.
Obi, who contested the 2023 presidential election on the Labour Party platform, had campaigned on an agenda focused on transitioning Nigeria from a consumption driven economy to one centred on production, including domestic manufacturing, agriculture, in
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