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A former presidential aide, Mr Reno Omokri, has said that Labour Party’s former presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi, lacks the moral authority to criticise President Bola Tinubu’s economic policies.

The Labour Party’s former candidate recently assessed the President’s performance as below par. He said his economic policies had left many Nigerians poorer than he met them, advising the President to tour the states to experience first-hand the high poverty rate across the country.

However, Omokri, in a statement on Friday, said Obi did not have the moral right to make adverse comments on Tinubu’s economic policies, because as the governor of Anambra State, his people’s poverty level worsened.

"Peter Obi, who worsened poverty in Anambra State, has no moral authority to accuse President Tinubu, who is reducing it,” the former aide to former President Goodluck Jonathan said, adding, “Mr Obi’s recent blunder, in which he urged the President to travel to the states to see the poverty level faced by Nigerians, is just another reminder that the only New Year resolution he appears to have made is to continue to misrepresent statistics through propaganda.”

Omokri recalled that under Tinubu’s watch, Lagos State experienced a reduction in poverty while Obi increased misery in his home state of Anambra State.

"Before Peter Obi took over as Governor of Anambra, poverty in that state was 41.4%. However, under Mr Obi, it grew to 53.7%. This is partly because Peter Obi refused to use the state’s allocations to build infrastructure, preferring to deposit them in his bank to yield interest,” he stated.

He said that rather than building schools and improving the education of his people, the former governor of Anambra State chose to build breweries, which he claimed benefited his family’s interests.

Omokri said Obi’s persistent criticism of Tinubu’s economic policies was mischievous because it discountenanced its increasing gains in the last 18 months.

He said that with the autonomy the President has secured for the local governments, the people at the grassroots level will witness poverty reduction as the councils’ direct funding starts this month.

He pointed out that improved security and local refining of petroleum products would help the President’s efforts to tame inflation. He contended that the former Labour Party presidential candidate was too fixated on president-bashing to see the gains of the ongoing economic reforms.

Omokri said: “Obi is fixated on President Tinubu because he wants the President’s power and the ability to wield it well. Therefore, he is the wrong person to advise about fighting poverty. Obi is the problem. President Tinubu is the solution.

“Obi is blind to the progress happening in Nigeria. Before President Tinubu assumed office, no single refinery in Nigeria worked, and Nigeria depended on imports for our refined petroleum needs.

Validated:
Peter Obi schooled Tinubu on governance and leadership. Only sycophants and fools will come out to say something different. People like Reno are the reasons our leaders are not performing and why our nation is backward. These the AGIP (Any Govt In Power) sycophants

Highlights of Peter Obi's pres conference
1. Stop foreign medical tourism
2. Stop foreign visits without positive results
3. Spend holidays in Nigeria, not just Lagos, visit Sokoto, Niger, Adamawa, Bornu
4. Go and see first hand what goes on in IDPs
5. Stem the highest form of poligrafy and corruption, by showing leadership
6. Visit soldiers in battle ground states to boost their morale
7. Stop borrowing to fund non-generative projects that cannot pay for themselves.
8. You are no longer governor Lagos, but president of Nigeria
9. Reduce cost of governance and focus on production rather than consumption
10. Go and visit our higher institutions, and see their hosteks and toilets. These are places our future leaders are being trained in squalor rundown environments
11. Stop using proxies to address Nigerians. Be courageous to face the press quarterly and tell Nigerians what you are doing.
12. Nigerians are hungry due to poor leadership. We are now having over 100m poorest of the poor and 150m in multi dimensional poverty

zero8zero:
Everything you listed was exactly what Obi did as Governor. A hypocrite & more.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIXOzyrleYM

Validated:
Peter Obi schooled Tinubu on governance and leadership. Only sycophants and fools will come out to say something different. People like Reno are the reasons our leaders are not performing and why our nation is backward. These the AGIP (Any Govt In Power) sycophants

Highlights of Peter Obi's pres conference
1. Stop foreign medical tourism
2. Stop foreign visits without positive results
3. Spend holidays in Nigeria, not just Lagos, visit Sokoto, Niger, Adamawa, Bornu
4. Go and see first hand what goes on in IDPs
5. Stem the highest form of poligrafy and corruption, by showing leadership
6. Visit soldiers in battle ground states to boost their morale
7. Stop borrowing to fund non-generative projects that cannot pay for themselves.
8. You are no longer governor Lagos, but president of Nigeria
9. Reduce cost of governance and focus on production rather than consumption
10. Go and visit our higher institutions, and see their hosteks and toilets. These are places our future leaders are being trained in squalor rundown environments
11. Stop using proxies to address Nigerians. Be courageous to face the press quarterly and tell Nigerians what you are doing.
12. Nigerians are hungry due to poor leadership. We are now having over 100m poorest of the poor and 150m in multi dimensional poverty

AdamuKD:
Ok we don here
Now, you can go and hug the nearest transformer in your area

zero8zero:
Everything you listed was exactly what Obi did as Governor. A hypocrite & more.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIXOzyrleYM

Validated:
Peter Obi schooled Tinubu on governance and leadership. Only sycophants and fools will come out to say something different. People like Reno are the reasons our leaders are not performing and why our nation is backward. These the AGIP (Any Govt In Power) sycophants

Highlights of Peter Obi's pres conference
1. Stop foreign medical tourism
2. Stop foreign visits without positive results
3. Spend holidays in Nigeria, not just Lagos, visit Sokoto, Niger, Adamawa, Bornu
4. Go and see first hand what goes on in IDPs
5. Stem the highest form of poligrafy and corruption, by showing leadership
6. Visit soldiers in battle ground states to boost their morale
7. Stop borrowing to fund non-generative projects that cannot pay for themselves.
8. You are no longer governor Lagos, but president of Nigeria
9. Reduce cost of governance and focus on production rather than consumption
10. Go and visit our higher institutions, and see their hosteks and toilets. These are places our future leaders are being trained in squalor rundown environments
11. Stop using proxies to address Nigerians. Be courageous to face the press quarterly and tell Nigerians what you are doing.
12. Nigerians are hungry due to poor leadership. We are now having over 100m poorest of the poor and 150m in multi dimensional poverty

Validated:
Peter Obi schooled Tinubu on governance and leadership. Only sycophants and fools will come out to say something different. People like Reno are the reasons our leaders are not performing and why our nation is backward. These the AGIP (Any Govt In Power) sycophants

Highlights of Peter Obi's pres conference
1. Stop foreign medical tourism
2. Stop foreign visits without positive results
3. Spend holidays in Nigeria, not just Lagos, visit Sokoto, Niger, Adamawa, Bornu
4. Go and see first hand what goes on in IDPs
5. Stem the highest form of poligrafy and corruption, by showing leadership
6. Visit soldiers in battle ground states to boost their morale
7. Stop borrowing to fund non-generative projects that cannot pay for themselves.
8. You are no longer governor Lagos, but president of Nigeria
9. Reduce cost of governance and focus on production rather than consumption
10. Go and visit our higher institutions, and see their hosteks and toilets. These are places our future leaders are being trained in squalor rundown environments
11. Stop using proxies to address Nigerians. Be courageous to face the press quarterly and tell Nigerians what you are doing.
12. Nigerians are hungry due to poor leadership. We are now having over 100m poorest of the poor and 150m in multi dimensional poverty

kedeojo:
Has governor, why did it implement most of this in Anambra. He is a clown, who is seeking for attention. Under is tenure as governor there were security challenges, doctors went on strike for 13 months.

Validated:
Peter Obi schooled Tinubu on governance and leadership. Only sycophants and fools will come out to say something different. People like Reno are the reasons our leaders are not performing and why our nation is backward. These the AGIP (Any Govt In Power) sycophants

Highlights of Peter Obi's pres conference
1. Stop foreign medical tourism
2. Stop foreign visits without positive results
3. Spend holidays in Nigeria, not just Lagos, visit Sokoto, Niger, Adamawa, Bornu
4. Go and see first hand what goes on in IDPs
5. Stem the highest form of poligrafy and corruption, by showing leadership
6. Visit soldiers in battle ground states to boost their morale
7. Stop borrowing to fund non-generative projects that cannot pay for themselves.
8. You are no longer governor Lagos, but president of Nigeria
9. Reduce cost of governance and focus on production rather than consumption
10. Go and visit our higher institutions, and see their hosteks and toilets. These are places our future leaders are being trained in squalor rundown environments
11. Stop using proxies to address Nigerians. Be courageous to face the press quarterly and tell Nigerians what you are doing.
12. Nigerians are hungry due to poor leadership. We are now having over 100m poorest of the poor and 150m in multi dimensional poverty

jogojogo:
As a governor for 8 years, which of these did Obi achieved achieve?
The hypocritical dullard should advice himself first, though not necessary any more because he would never be in that position anymore

kedeojo:
Has governor, why did it implement most of this in Anambra. He is a clown, who is seeking for attention. Under is tenure as governor there were security challenges, doctors went on strike for 13 months.