🇳🇬 A Nigerian presidential candidate has understated the country’s exports. Official data shows annual exports from the west African country have exceeded $30 billion for well over a decade
Obi is a two-term ex-governor of Nigeria’s southern Anambra state and is bidding to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari in next year’s election as leader of the Labour Party.that was aired on July 6, 2022, by Nigerian broadcaster Arise Television.
“Morocco is about 36 million, their export last year was over 50 billion dollars,” said Obi. “In our own [exports] with oil included, it's under 30 billion [dollars] and we’re 200 million [people]. Morocco didn’t export any oil.”“Nigeria is a country with 923,000 square kilometres of land, and a population of 200 million people. God blessed us with oil and other resources. We have over 100 million people living in poverty,” Obi said in the second interview.
“But to show that we are not a producing country, last year, our total export including oil was less than 30 billion dollars, that is why we can’t find dollars today.”
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