In a recent TV appearance, the presidential candidate of Nigeria’s Social Democratic Party (SDP) – Adewole Adebayo – vowed to solve the nation’s unemployment problems by deploying various technologies, including blockchain and digital currencies.
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The 50-year-old lawyer said he had discussed the idea with the US Black Chamber of Commerce and the National Chamber of Commerce. He has worked as a broad adviser for people part of these organizations, assuring they have created numerous job positions across the globe in the past years:
“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.”
Nigeria’s unemployment rate has gradually increased in the last decade, hitting almost 10% in 2022. Adebayo believes his eventual administration could join forces with 2,000 domestic crypto companies and significantly decrease those figures:
We discovered that we can create 10 – 30 million jobs – using 2,000 companies and bringing the production that they are doing into the country.”
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Adebayo’s interaction with the cryptocurrency sector could win him additional votes since locals have already displayed their sympathy toward the asset class.
A KuCoin study estimated in April that 33.4 million Nigerians (35% of those aged 18 to 60) have owned or traded digital assets in the previous six months. According to the research, the main reason for the considerable adoption is the lack of proper fiat-based opportunities in many parts of the country.
The current inflation rate in the nation surpassed 20%, reaching a 17-year high. The hostile macroeconomic conditions, combined with the crash of the Nigerian naira, caused many locals to invest in bitcoin and stablecoins in an attempt to preserve some of their wealth.
