Former Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has criticised President Bola Tinubu for allegedly misrepresenting economic data to downplay Nigeria’s worsening economic situation.
In a statement shared on X on
Obi recalled Tinubu’s 2022 campaign remarks in Delta State, where the then APC candidate reportedly dismissed Obi’s focus on data and statistics.
“In November 2022, while campaigning in Delta State, the then APC Presidential Candidate, Bola Tinubu, now the President, berated the other Presidential Candidate, 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,’” Obi recalled.
“Now two 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 debasing, all to put a positive spin on our deteriorating economic and household conditions,” he stated.
Reiterating his long-held stance on governance, Obi said, “Governance is not a rock science, it’s not a gamble. Like I have always reiterated, it requires sincerity of purpose, character, competence, capacity and compassion.”
