The Presidency on Monday dismissed calls by the Nigerian Democratic Congress’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, for President Bola Tinubu’s resignation as “childish, hollow and an unworthy distraction.”
It cited economic data on Tinubu’s performance in the past three years, arguing that it contrasts with Obi’s own record as governor of Anambra State.
In a statement signed by the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, the Presidency said Obi’s latest comments were an attempt to undercut the APC’s victory in the just-concluded Ekiti governorship election and the senatorial by-elections.
Onanuga said Obi’s comparison of Tinubu’s situation to that of the British Prime Minister Kier Starmer, who resigned hours earlier, exposed the former Anambra governor’s misunderstanding of Nigeria’s constitutional architecture.
He argued that Obi’s verdict that Nigeria was in its “worst possible condition” did not match verifiable economic data and global assessments of the administration’s performance.
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