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From Sola Ojo, Abuja
The 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has taken a swipe at President Bola Ahmed Tinubu over the worsening economic situation in the country, accusing him of failing to fulfil one of his campaign promises of making food available and affordable to Nigerians.
He described the President’s claims so far as misleading, with distorted statistics while millions go hungry.
Peter Obi stated this on Monday, July 28, on his verified X handle (formerly Twitter).
Recalling Tinubu’s 2022 campaign remarks in Delta State where the then APC candidate ridiculed him (Obi) without directly mentioning his name, saying, “Na statistics we go chop? All I want is to put food on the table of Nigerians,” Obi said the reality two years into Tinubu’s four-year administration spoke to failed promises and economic mismanagement.
“Nigeria is now ranked among the hungriest nations in the world.
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“Millions of citizens wake up daily not knowing where their next meal will come from,” Obi lamented.
He accused the government of manipulating economic data in a desperate attempt to mask the country’s deteriorating living conditions.
“From wrong unemployment figures to dubious inflation rates and now GDP debasing, the administration is feeding Nigerians with sugar-coated lies,” Obi stated.
To Obi, the former Anambra State governor, governance is not a gamble or guesswork, but a task that demands “sincerity of purpose, character, competence, capacity, and compassion”.
With his current slogan, he reaffirmed his belief in the possibility of a better Nigeria when he wrote, “A new Nigeria is POssible”.
