By Abiola Olawale
Mr Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s 2023 presidential candidate and former governor of Anambra State, has accused President Bola Tinubu’s administration of feeding Nigerians with what he called a steady diet of inaccurate statistics to mask the country’s deepening economic woes.
In a blistering statement posted on his X account, Obi who is one of the arrowheads of the opposition, criticized the Tinubu administration for allegedly manipulating data on unemployment, inflation, and GDP to paint what de described “a falsely positive picture of Nigeria’s deteriorating economy.”
He said: “In November 2022, while campaigning in Delta State, the then APC Presidential Candidate, Bola Tinubu, now the President, berated the other Presidential Candidate, whom he was ashamed to call by name, saying ‘Na statistics we go chop? All I want is to put food on the table of Nigerians.
“Now two 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 debasing, all to put a positive spin on our deteriorating economic and household conditions.”
