Former Anambra State Governor Peter Obi has rapped President Bola Tinubu over the economic hardship in the country.
Obi, a presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 election, said Tinubu was “overfeeding Nigerians with wrong statistics” to conceal economic hardship.
The former governor shared this in a statement on X on Monday, July 28, 2025.
He stated that Tinubu, while campaigning ahead of the 2023 presidential election, mocked him for his reliance on data-driven governance.
Obi 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.”
Obi stressed that governance required sincerity of purpose and competence, saying: “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.”
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