Peter Obi, the 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party, has taken a swipe at President Bola Ahmed Tinubu over a 2022 campaign statement where Tinubu mocked his focus on statistics.
In a strongly worded post shared via his official Facebook page, Obi criticized Tinubu for failing to fulfill his campaign promise of improving Nigerians’ standard of living. Instead, he accused the President of plunging more citizens into poverty.
Obi recalled Tinubu’s remark during a campaign rally in Delta State in November 2022. At the time, Tinubu dismissed the importance of data-driven governance, saying, “Na statistics we go chop? All I want is to put food on the table of Nigerians.”
Reacting, Obi wrote:
“Now, two years into his four-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 faulty unemployment and inflation figures to questionable GDP rebasing—all in an attempt to paint a positive picture of worsening economic and household conditions.”
“Governance is not rocket science, nor is it a gamble. As I have always said, it requires sincerity of purpose, character, competence, capacity, and compassion. A new Nigeria is POssible.”
Obi’s remarks come amid growing public concern over rising inflation, food insecurity, and economic hardship under the Tinubu administration.
