The presidential candidate of the Young Progressive Party (YPP), Peter Agada, has claimed that he and his team authored the “consumption-to-production” concept adopted by Peter Obi during his 2023 presidential campaign.
Agada, who served as the Director of Finance for the Obidient campaign in the 2023 election, made the claim while discussing his experience in policy development and politics.
According to him, he had been involved in writing public policies in Nigeria for decades and had contributed to policy documents for several politicians seeking elective offices.
“There are things I’m struggling not to say here. A lot of these guys who are running for offices took documents off my table. Their manifestos, their programs. I’m not junior to anybody. I started writing policies in Nigeria before some people even entered politics,” Agada said.
He said his experience in policy development dated back several decades, noting that he had been running the Congress of Nigerian Professionals for about 20 years.
“Some of these people running for elections right now, I don’t need to call names. So we’ve been there. I run the Congress of Nigerian Professionals. This is 20 years. This is 30 years of practice,” he said.
When asked specifically whether he was referring to Obi, Agada answered in the affirmative, saying he had personally written policies for the former Anambra State governor.
“Of course, I wrote policies for Peter Obi. The consumption-to-production infrastructure was written by me and my team under Professor Pat Utomi,” he said.
Agada further maintained that the policy concept originated from his team and was developed during their work with Obi.
“Consumption to production infrastructure was from my table. Our time,” he added.
Obi, who contested the 2023 presidential election on the platform of the Labour Party, campaigned on an agenda that emphasised moving Nigeria from a consumption-driven economy towards production, with greater emphasis on domestic manufacturing, agriculture, infrastructure and job creation.
Agada is now seeking the presidency on the YPP platform ahead of the 2027 general election.
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