Utomi urges diaspora to help save Nigeria

Professor Pat Utomi, a political economist, told a mixed audience of Nigerians in Dallas, Texas, on Sunday that they had a responsibility to promote a massive intervention to save Nigeria.

Utomi said the clarion cry had become necessary after seeing the bleak picture of where Nigeria could be going under the current political leadership.
At the event, he noted that the diaspora remit more money home than Nigeria earns from crude oil sales as they are high stakeholders with a moral obligation to help halt the drift in Nigeria.

According to him, the diaspora have higher competencies and a global network but are being blocked from their natural role in national rejuvenation by professional politicians in Nigeria who thrive on exclusion to achieve state capture, deserves a place at the table.

This is as he lamented that this political class, which continues to exclude women, youth and intellectuals, while incorporating drug barons and fraudsters, works hard to deny diaspora voting rights which many African countries allow and encourage.