Former Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has taken aim at President Bola Tinubu, accusing him of breaking campaign promises and deceiving the public with manipulated economic figures.
Obi referenced Tinubu’s 2022 campaign speech in Delta State, where the then-presidential hopeful downplayed the relevance of statistics, promising instead to focus on feeding Nigerians.
Now, Obi says, Tinubu is doing the opposite frequently relying on what he calls “false statistics,” including understated GDP numbers and inaccurate inflation and unemployment rates, to paint a rosier picture of Nigeria’s economic reality.
He stressed that true leadership demands both capability and an honest commitment to the country’s progress.
He said …
“In November 2022, while campaigning in Delta State, the then APC Presidential Candidate, Bola Tinubu, now the President, berated the other Presidential Candidate (Peter Obi), he was ashamed to call his name, saying “Na statistics we go chop all I want is to put food on the table of Nigerians”.
Now 2 years into his 4-year tenure, Nigeria is classified as one of the hungriest nations in the world with millions of Nigerians not knowing where their next meal will come from.
President Tinubu is now overfeeding Nigerians with wrong Statistics from wrong unemployment figures, wrong inflation figures, and now GDP rebasing, all to put a positive spin on our deteriorating economic and household conditions.
Governance is not a rocket science, it’s not a gamble, like I have always reiterated, it requires sincerity of purpose, character, competence, capacity and compassion.
A new Nigeria is POssible. -PO”
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