Former presidential candidate Peter Obi has criticised President Bola Tinubu for what he describes as the administration’s failure to address widespread hunger and economic hardship in Nigeria. Obi, in a statement on Sunday, recalled Tinubu’s 2022 campaign remark in Delta State where the then APC flagbearer mocked him for focusing on statistics, saying, “Na statistics we go chop? All I want is to put food on the table of Nigerians.”
Obi argued that nearly two years into President Tinubu’s term, the country has instead become “one of the hungriest nations in the world,” with millions of citizens unsure of where their next meal will come from.
He accused the presidency of manipulating official data to mask worsening conditions, citing allegedly flawed unemployment, inflation, and rebased GDP figures. Obi described the strategy as an attempt to “put a positive spin on our deteriorating economic and household conditions.”
“Governance is not rocket science or a gamble,” he said. “It requires sincerity of purpose, character, competence, capacity, and compassion.”
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