Mr. Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the last election, has made mockery of President Bola Tinubu following his administration’s unleashing of wrong unemployment, inflation and GDP rebasing figures.
Obi in a statement on Monday, recounted in November 2022, how Mr. Tinubu, who was the then APC presidential candidate was campaigning in Delta State, asked his supporters, “Na statistics we go chop all I want is to put food on the table of Nigerians”.
Though, Tinubu, who did not mention the name of Peter Obi while launching the scathing attack on the former governor of Anambra State said, governance was not warehouse economics.
However, Obi in the statement said that 2 years into President Tinubu 4-year tenure, Nigeria has been classified as one of the hungriest nations in the world with millions of Nigerians not knowing where their next meal will come from.
The statement reads: “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.”
