On Monday, July 28, 2025, Mr. Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s 2023 presidential candidate, took to X to criticize President Bola Tinubu for allegedly using inaccurate statistics to mask Nigeria’s worsening economic conditions. Recalling a November 2022 campaign event in Delta State where Tinubu, then the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, mocked Obi’s reliance on data, saying, “Na statistics we go chop? All I want is to put food on the table of Nigerians,” Obi highlighted Nigeria’s current ranking among the world’s hungriest nations, with 31% of its population facing acute food insecurity, per the 2025 Global Hunger Index. He accused Tinubu of “overfeeding Nigerians with wrong statistics” on unemployment, inflation, and GDP rebasing to falsely portray economic stability, despite soaring inflation rates (34.2% in June 2025, per the National Bureau of Statistics) and unemployment at 5.3% per official figures, though X posts by @Naija_Activist suggest underreporting.
Obi emphasized that effective governance requires “truth, vision, and integrity,” not misleading data, and called for sincerity, competence, and compassion to address Nigeria’s economic and household challenges. His remarks align with sentiments on X from users like @SaharaReporters and @ChudeMedia, who on July 27–28, 2025, criticized the APC’s economic narrative, pointing to rising poverty and food prices as evidence of policy failures. Obi’s critique underscores ongoing tensions with the Tinubu administration as he positions himself within the African Democratic Congress (ADC) coalition for the 2027 elections.
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