A Senior Secondary School student, Chizzy Ebube Balogun, has donated the sum of N100,000 to the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, ahead of the 2023 general election.

Balogun made the donation at the South South Business Summit in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital on Saturday night.

Obi, while expressing her appreciation to the student via a tweet on his Twitter account, said: “My deep appreciation to Ms. Chizzy Ebube Balogun, a secondary school (SS2) student, for her small but most invaluable donation.

“She has invested in her future and those of her contemporaries and generations yet unborn.

“She is an exemplar in social consciousness. God bless you and your generation.”

Speaking at the event, the LP presidential standard bearer said organised private sector is critical to any government hoping to make impact.

Obi said for any government to succeed, it must partner with the organised private sector and must also create an enabling environment for domestic and foreign investors.

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The former governor of Anambra State stressed that himself and his running mate Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed are coming from the private sector and understand what is needed to drive private sector activities.

He noted that previous governments failed in the country because they ignored the components of business in governance and end up in sharing without production.

Obi, who described himself as a trader, said the consumption to production mantra of his campaign is real, adding that it remains the only way to drive the economy and attract foreign exchange for the country through exports.

“It’s also through production that the people can be pulled out of poverty as youths in their productive age will be dutifully engaged and this will also impact on the social sector because crimes and criminalities will reduce,” the presidential hopeful added.

Obi promised that his administration, if elected in the forthcoming presidential election, would create a conducive environment for investors to help in tapping the country’s rich natural potentials.

The former governor also assured that his administration will take education as investment and will invest heavily in the sector and health “because these two sectors differentiate the rich and poor countries”.

The Star