Hardship: Tinubu now overfeeding Nigerians with wrong statistics — Peter Obi
By Jeffrey Agbo
Former presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has accused President Bola Tinubu of presenting incorrect statistics to obscure Nigeria’s worsening economic situation.
Obi wrote in an X post on Monday that Tinubu once ridiculed his emphasis on data during campaigns ahead of the 2023 elections.
“In November 2022, while campaigning in Delta state, Tinubu said he was ashamed to call my name and mocked me, saying, ‘Na statistics we go chop? All I want is to put food on the table of Nigerians,” Obi said.
“Now, two years into his four-year tenure, Nigeria is ranked among the hungriest nations in the world, with millions unsure of where their next meal will come from.”
Obi also accused the president of relying on what he described as “false data” to misrepresent the true state of the economy.
“President Tinubu is now overfeeding Nigerians with wrong statistics — from unemployment figures to inflation rates and now GDP rebasing — all to paint a rosy picture of our deteriorating economic and household conditions,” Obi added.
He stressed that effective leadership must be anchored on truth, vision, and integrity, stating, “Governance is not rocket science. It is not a gamble. It requires sincerity of purpose, character, competence, capacity and compassion.”
