Economic hardship: Tinubu feeding Nigerians with wrong statistics ― Obi

Former Anambra State Governor Peter Obi has lashed out at President Bola Tinubu over the economic hardship in the country.

Obi, a presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 election, said Tinubu is “overfeeding Nigerians with wrong statistics” to conceal economic hardship

The former governor said this via a statement shared on X on Monday, July 28, 2025.

He further stated that Tinubu, while campaigning ahead of the 2023 presidential election, mocked him for his reliance on data-driven governance.

Obi said: “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’.

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“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 rebasing, all to put a positive spin on our deteriorating economic and household conditions.”

Obi stressed that governance requires sincerity of purpose and competence, saying: “Governance is not a rocket science, it’s not a gamble, like I have always reiterated, it requires sincerity of purpose, character, competence, capacity and compassion.”

The Star