Adebayo Adewole, the presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), has stated that if won in 2023, his administration will use technological potential such as blockchain and cryptocurrency to create up to 30 million employment in Nigeria.
He boasted that he would create jobs using time-tested tactics that have worked in other countries.
According to Anaedoonline.ng, Adewole made the pledge during an interview on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics, when he boasted of being the consultant to teams that successfully executed similar techniques in other countries.
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Apart from technology, the presidential contender promised to look into agro-allied, alternative energy, infrastructure, and other areas for employment development, which will contribute to further poverty reduction in society.
He said: “The way to get the job out is this. I realized that if we are to rely on our public expenditure alone, we cannot create these jobs. What I did was to go to the US Black Chamber of Commerce and the National Chamber of Commerce in the US – people who know me too well and whom I have worked with. I am a board adviser for some of them and I have gone around the world with them on job creation.
“I told them, ‘Look, you know we have done these things before in many countries and I have been your adviser and we have done all of these things. In my country, I know the objective conditions that we can create for you to come to Nigeria and we can create jobs.
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“We sat down together and we looked at it in various sectors – agro-allied, alternative energy, infrastructure, health, and social services, new technologies such as block chain and crypto technology – we discovered that we can create three million jobs times 10 – 30 million jobs – using 2,000 companies and bringing the production that they are doing into the country.”
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