2023: PRP female aspirant promises to make Nigerian industrial hub

2023: PRP female aspirant promises to make Nigerian industrial hub.

A presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP), Mrs Patience Key, has promised to make Nigeria an industrial hub, if elected in the 2023 presidential election.

Key made the promise on Wednesday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria, when she arrived from the U.S., at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.

She said Nigeria should not be waiting for things or products that come from outside the country to be able to survive.

Key said that the per capital income could not grow in any nation that was not producing.

She said that efforts ought to be made urgently to change the Nigerian status of being a consuming country to a producing one.

”We can manufacture; we can industrialise this nation.

”So, we need a person that can make this happen and that is why I am running for president of Federal Republic of Nigeria,” she said.

According to her, the world is going digital and Nigeria cannot do otherwise and people are wealthier during pandemic are people in the digital world.

”We need to digitise our healthcare and educational systems among others.

”Digitising is the key. It will curb a lot of problems. It is cost effective if you go digital.

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”It is going to curb corruption because things will be properly done,” she said.

Key, who was the immediate-past chairman of Nigerians in Diaspora Organisation (NIDO) U.S., said if elected, she would encourage Nigerians in the Diaspora to invest in the country to boost industrialisation and infrastructure.

According to her, the Diaspora is a great gain to Nigeria.

”We, in the Diaspora, remit an average of 25 billion dollars every year to Nigeria; that is a big deal. That is over what Nigeria brings in as the budget.

”The Diaspora should be a ministry on its own. In Diaspora, you have the best medical doctors, the best nurses and we should not be going to medical tourism.

”We should not be going out for education because we have the talents. The Diasporas are happy with our agenda. We just need that enabling environment to make things to drive,” she said.

Key said the ”simple power agenda” of the party focused on creating peace, equity and wealth.

She said the party wanted to create peace by looking into security issues in Nigeria.

”We want to create equity, there are lots of division. People want to go in different direction. Nigerians people feel marginalised. We in the Diaspora, we feel maginalised. Nigerians are being disrespected.

”Nigerians are not well-represented. That is why some groups want to have their own country. But it should not be so.

”The third one is wealth creation. The first thing in wealth creation is to build capacity. We are not just a big population, a giant of Africa in terms of population, we have talents,” she said.

On the International Women Day, Key urged all Nigerian women to believe in themselves to actualise God’s plans for their lives.

According to her, women are good managers and nurturers.

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“We are mothers. We are nurturers. We are great managers. We feel the pulse of the people by thinking and rethinking again how can things be done differently.

“Women have the power to become who God has created them to be. It is not by a competition but collaboration. All we want to do is to move Nigeria forward,” she said.