The 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has accused President Bola Tinubu of further entrenching Nigeria and its citizens in poverty while feeding them with wrong statistics.
In a statement he posted on his X page on Monday, Peter Obi stated that under Tinubu’s leadership, Nigeria has become one of the world’s hungriest nations.
The Labour Party leader recounted how Tinubu, as a presidential candidate in the 2023 election campaign, chastised him for regularly using statistics.
Obi, on the other hand, said that Tinubu, after taking power, is now circulating false figures regarding Nigeria’s economic status in order to hide his failings as President.
He wrote: “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 debasing, all to put a positive spin on our deteriorating economic and household conditions.
“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.”
