The Labour Party candidate during the February 25 presidential election, Peter Obi, has said Africa’s growth and development may be impossible if the leaders do not get their acts right.
He said if the continent does not deal with its only challenge, which he claimed was leadership failure, achieving the needed development and growth may be near impossible.
“Unfortunately, Africa’s growth and development will continue to appear as an impossible dream if we do not deal with the only challenge facing Africa – leadership failure,” Obi said in a series of posts on his X handle on Monday.
The former Anambra State governor explained that while the continent is blessed with abundant human and natural resources, leadership failure had been its albatross.
He said, “Africa, as the second largest and second most populous continent in the world, with a population of over 1.4 billion people, is home to a youthful, and dynamic workforce with the largest…