Peter, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the February 25 presidential election, has supported the move by Nigerians fleeing the country for greener pastures abroad, “JAPA”, saying this will benefit the country’s fortunes in the future.
The former Anambra governor stated that today’s brain drain will be Nigeria’s brain gain tomorrow.
Obi, while supporting Bill Gate’s opinion on the migration wave hitting Nigeria, in a series of tweets, Thursday, noted that “Nigerians leaving the country will be critical in the building of the New Nigeria”.
“I read and agree with Bill Gates’s recent comment on the ‘japa syndrome, where, according to reports, he stated that the recent surge of Nigerian professionals leaving the country for greener pastures is good and healthy for our country.”
Obi noted that “I have always preached and maintained this same position that ‘Our brain drain today will be our brain gain tomorrow’.”
“Nigerians leaving the country may look like a loss today, but when we start doing the right things and taking the governance of our nation more seriously, the knowledge and resources from them will be critical in the building of the New Nigeria, as it happened in China, India, Ireland and other developing countries,” Peter Obi noted.