Peter Obi and President Tinubu
Reno Omokri
Mr. Obi’s recent blunder in which he urged the President to travel to the states to see the poverty level faced by Nigerians is just another pointer to the fact that the only New Year resolution Mr. Obi appears to have made is to continue being the brand ambassador for Gbajue, fake statistics, and propaganda.
First of all, Peter Obi did not mention the Governors or local government chairmen. This is even as federal allocation to states has doubled under Tinubu, and local governments now receive allocations directly after Tinubu wins them autonomy.
He went straight for the jugular and directly attacked the President. However, other than addressing the inflation rate, which the President has promised to do in his New Year speech, and stabilising monetary policy, which is ongoing, most of the work involved in lifting people out of poverty is at the state level.
But Obi is fixated with President Tinubu because he wants what the President has-power and the ability to wield it well.
And it is not a surprise that Peter Obi does not know this. Because, whereas as Governor of Lagos, poverty was reduced under Asiwaju Tinubu, it actually increased under Obi as Governor.
Please fact-check me: Before Peter Obi took over as Governor of Anambra, poverty in that state was 41.4%. However, under Mr. Obi, it grew to 53.7%, partly because Peter Obi refused to use the state’s allocations to build infrastructure, preferring to deposit them in his bank to yield interest that went into his pockets.
In his eight years as Governor, Mr. Obi did not initiate, start, complete, or commission even one nursery, primary, secondary school, or university.
But Obi used Anambra state funds to build beer refineries that his family has interests in.
Therefore, Mr. Obi is the wrong person to advise about fighting poverty. Obi is the problem. President Tinubu is the solution.
If not that they are blinded by ethnicity, Obidients have more than enough reasons not to take Mr. Obi seriously anymore.
Because Mr. Obi is apparently blind to the progress happening in Nigeria. Before President Tinubu assumed office, no single refinery in Nigeria worked, and Nigeria depended on imports for our refined petroleum needs.
But within eighteen months of President Tinubu’s leadership, Nigeria had three major refineries working, including the Dangote, Port Harcourt, and Warri Refineries. We are now a net exporter of Premium Motor Spirits, even as this is the first Yuletide season when Nigerians enjoyed both fuel availability and fuel price reduction.
Mr. Obi talked about the President’s foreign travels. But they are to bring investments to Nigeria, and it is working. FDI has increased by 28% under Tinubu. Plus, Tinubu’s son, Seyi, is here investing in Nigeria for Nigerians. Where is Peter Obi’s son, Peter Oseloka Obi? And what is he doing, and who is he ‘investing’ in in London? Or is Obi ashamed of his son’s doings?
Nigerians should note that Peter Obi’s latest attack on President Tinubu is just another power grab by a political desperado.
When asked about the so-called merger between his Labour Party, the Peoples Democratic Party, and the New Nigeria Peoples Party, he said that, though there was not one yet, these parties must come together to ‘defeat the APC’.
Just look at that:
Not to uplift more Nigerians out of poverty
Nor to end insecurity
Not to reduce out-of-school children
Not to boost local manufacturing
Or to increase foreign direct investment
Nor widen the tax collection base
Or even to end the situation in the Southeast
They just want to unite to defeat the APC. Power is their only goal, not people. No wonder Kwankwaso rejected their so-called merger.
Desperate politicians whose only agenda is power at any cost, even at the price of “religious war” against Muslims.
May God never let them achieve their nefarious plans for Nigeria
