₦airaland Forum

Labour Party’s 2023 presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi, has drawn a sharp contrast between political leadership in Nigeria and the United States.

Obi faulted Nigerian leaders for wasteful displays of power despite managing comparatively smaller budgets.

In a post on X on Thursday, Obi recounted his ongoing three-day trip to the US, where he visited Atlanta, Washington, and Chicago.

He noted that Atlanta, with an annual city budget of about $3 billion, generates more revenue than Nigeria’s national budget, yet its mayor, Andre Dickens, maintains a modest public profile.

Obi said he travelled with Dickens on the same flight from Atlanta to Washington without any special treatment for the mayor. According to him, Dickens boarded and disembarked like every other passenger, without aides carrying bags, announcements, sirens, or entourages.

“In Nigeria, governors, most of whom oversee budgets smaller than Atlanta’s—and even local government chairmen, whose allocations are less than 1% of Atlanta’s, would have constituted a public nuisance with sirens, protocol officers, endless announcements, large entourages, and posters everywhere,” Obi stated.

He argued that Nigerian leaders must change their public conduct and focus more on service delivery, citing Dickens’ commitments to crime reduction, youth opportunities, and a minimum wage of $15 per hour for council workers.

ShoeMarket:
The most annoying part of the whole showmanship is that compared to the mayor, most of these our governors are empty brains, illiterates and second and third division league graduates as Abati of Arise News will call them. Imagine Okpebholo as governor, this is a man who bear the worst WAEC certificate I have ever seen in my entire life. See him move around in Nigeria e go shock you.

ShoeMarket:
The most annoying part of the whole showmanship is that compared to the mayor, most of these our governors are empty brains, illiterates and second and third division league graduates as Abati of Arise News will call them. Imagine Okpebholo as governor, this is a man who bear the worst WAEC certificate I have ever seen in my entire life. See him move around in Nigeria e go shock you.

ShoeMarket:
The most annoying part of the whole showmanship is that compared to the mayor, most of these our governors are empty brains, illiterates and second and third division league graduates as Abati of Arise News will call them. Imagine Okpebholo as governor, this is a man who bear the worst WAEC certificate I have ever seen in my entire life. See him move around in Nigeria e go shock you.

helinues:
Peter Obi the Casablaster. He had the capacity to do all what he has been suggesting for Nigeria to grow but he forgot to implement majority of those solutions when he was the governor of Anambra state

Melagros:
COMRADES, this man and government no dey gree at all. I wish that this man would be given a chance at the central corridor of power so that we can taste his own leadership style

DomPerignon:
When you ewer governor, did you not use convoys complete with sirens and police escort?

Same you that even deployed convoy of jeeps complete with police escort to move #250 million from Anambra govt house to your private office in Apapa, Lagos.

Why is this girigori such a hypocirte?

helinues:
Peter Obi the Casablaster. He had the capacity to do all what he has been suggesting for Nigeria to grow but he forgot to implement majority of those solutions when he was the governor of Anambra state

Exousiang01:
Please how was Peter moving when he was a governor.
Can Peter swear that he moved around without a convoy?
This boy keeps thinking every Nigerian reasons like his Obidient minions

Exousiang01:
Please how was Peter moving when he was a governor.
Can Peter swear that he moved around without a convoy?
This boy keeps thinking every Nigerian reasons like his Obidient minions

adamkkk:
attacking the messenger and not addressing the message


this modus operandi is lame and obsolete and rixkked ... try something else

DomPerignon:
When you ewer governor, did you not use convoys complete with sirens and police escort?

Same you that even deployed convoy of jeeps complete with police escort to move #250 million from Anambra govt house to your private office in Apapa, Lagos.

Why is this girigori such a hypocirte?

helinues:
Peter Obi the Casablaster. He had the capacity to do all what he has been suggesting for Nigeria to grow but he forgot to implement majority of those solutions when he was the governor of Anambra state

Bovis:
Would the level of insecurity in Nigeria allow a governor to move around without escorts?