The presidential candidate of the Labour Party(LP) in the 2023 general elections, Peter Obi, has berated President Bola Tinubu for disseminating incorrect statistics about the economic situation in Nigeria as a way to cover up his failures as President.
The former Anambra governor via the microblogging platform, X on Monday, said under Tinubu’s watch, Nigeria is now classified as one of the hungriest nations in the world.
The Labour Party chieftain recalled how Tinubu, as a presidential candidate during the 2023 election campaigns, mocked him for frequently quoting statistics.
Obi who accused Tinubu of plunging Nigeria and its citizens further into poverty, noted that governance is not rocket science as he urged the president to rule with purpose, character, competence, capacity and compassion.
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 rocket science, it’s not a gamble, like I have always reiterated, it requires sincerity of purpose, character, competence, capacity and compassion.
“A new Nigeria is POssible. -PO”