The running mate to Atiku Abubakar for the 2019 presidential election made this known while addressing issues on economic policies at the NEDG, BON Vice-Presidential debate on Friday.
“Fighting corruption is not an economic policy, it is not that you can’t fight corruption, but you can fight it more aggressively while addressing economic issues,” the former Anambra governor said.
He lamented that “In 2015 unemployment rate was 24 percent but today it is 40.
“In 2015, we were attracting 21billion dollars in foreign direct investment; we attracted only 12 last year.
“Our GDP was five hundred and twenty in 2015 and per-capital was two thousand five hundred, today it is under 1900.
“Our stock market has lost over two trillion in one year”.
