₦airaland Forum

OKOATA:
Mr Bayo, face your job and leave Obi alone. From Jan to December Obi. We don enter new year now na Obi we dey here again.

Wizardslayer:
Peter Obi's defection to ADC is really causing sleepless nights in APC and beyond.

Bayo should wipe his tears and move on. It's really painful.

Segunbabba:
https://dailytrust.com/you-failed-as-anambra-gov-presidency-slams-obi/?noamp=available

SeeWahala:
Yolo RoNu e-things should rest jor 😏

Tomorrow you go open anoda new account name yourself 'onyeka' so pipo will think you're Igbo

Segunbabba:
https://dailytrust.com/you-failed-as-anambra-gov-presidency-slams-obi/?noamp=available

Chucks13:
Then don't read whatever he says with your filthy brain na.

The truth is "we don't like your obi" and we do not want him. And he can never get Aso Rock in his life time. Full stop.

psalmsjob:
It is good that you admit Peter Obi is a failure. He can't organize a political party and he wants to lead nigeria. He will still leave ADC as soon as they don't give him ticket.

Chucks13:
Then don't read whatever he says with your filthy brain na.

The truth is "we don't like your obi" and we do not want him. And he can never get Aso Rock in his life time. Full stop.

Jayhome24:
So shall we say you are obsessed with Tinubu because you can not rest in a day without mentioning Tinubu every day of your life?

HgAkpobomeEr:
Obi should have just kept quiet and enjoy his life.

HgAkpobomeEr:
Obi should have just kept quiet and enjoy his life.

ebukal67x:
Bayo Onanuga is a good man. I wish him all the best.

Okechinwadike:
you who? Who are you? Ordinary una, i don't know that you people is greater than God oooooo

historic:
The "We" crooner has spoken. "We" won't give you data boys peace this new year for supporting failure and trying to force false narratives down our throats. Wannabe!

WriterX:
After carefully reading this, I have come to realize that Bayo Onanuga’s statement is less a serious policy defence and more a partisan tirade riddled with historical amnesia, selective facts, and personal abuse unbecoming of a presidential spokesman. When a government communicator abandons evidence for insults, it often signals insecurity, not confidence.

First, the attempt to frame Peter Obi as a “bitter loser” ignores a basic democratic reality: post-election critique is not bitterness; it is accountability. Every major opposition figure globally — from the United States to Europe — continues to interrogate elections, policies, and governance long after polls close. To demand silence from Obi while Tinubu himself contested elections multiple times after losing is rank hypocrisy. Tinubu went to court repeatedly between 2003 and 2007; was he “bitter” then, or was he exercising democratic rights?

Second, the claim that “empirical analyses showed Obi could not have won” collapses under scrutiny. INEC’s own final results show Obi won 11 states and the FCT, including Lagos — Tinubu’s political base — an unprecedented outcome for a third-force candidate. That alone contradicts the narrative of an “abysmal third-place fluke.” No amount of name-calling erases the electoral earthquake of 2023, where a candidate without state backing or federal machinery shattered Nigeria’s two-party monopoly.

Third, Onanuga’s assertion that Obi was an “abysmal failure” in Anambra is demonstrably false and easily verifiable. When Obi left office in 2014, Anambra had zero bank loans, over ₦75 billion in savings and investments, and functional public institutions — facts acknowledged by the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, the Debt Management Office, and even successive Anambra governments. If that is failure, then Nigeria desperately needs more of it. Contrast this with today’s federal reality: ballooning debt, weakened purchasing power, and record food inflation despite repeated claims of “economic restructuring.”

Fourth, the mocking reference to a “madman in Onitsha” is not just crude; it exposes a disturbing disdain for mental health, religious diversity, and millions of Nigerians. For a presidential spokesman to deploy such language reflects poorly on the administration he represents. Governments confident in their record do not resort to mockery — they marshal data.

On the economic claims, Onanuga’s narrative again unravels. Removing petrol subsidy without adequate buffers triggered historic inflation, currency freefall, and widespread poverty, as confirmed by the National Bureau of Statistics and the World Bank. Foreign reserves have not “risen sustainably”; they have fluctuated amid heavy intervention, while the naira lost significant value within months. Inflation “decelerating” after peaking above 30% is not success — it is damage control after policy shock.

The much-touted Lagos–Calabar and Sokoto–Badagry highways remain largely conceptual, with procurement controversies, cost opacity, and minimal visible progress. Announcements are not achievements. Nigerians measure governance by outcomes, not press releases.

On the accusation that Obi promotes “copy-and-paste governance,” Onanuga again misrepresents reality. Every successful nation learns from others — Singapore studied Britain, China studied the West, Rwanda studied Singapore. Learning is not copying; refusing to learn is stagnation. Ironically, many Tinubu policies — subsidy removal, tax harmonisation, FX liberalisation — are textbook IMF and World Bank prescriptions, hardly “homegrown originality.”

Finally, the obsession with Obi’s party movements reeks of selective memory. Tinubu himself moved from SDP to AD to AC to ACN to APC. Political evolution is not wandering; it is adaptation. To weaponise it against Obi is intellectual dishonesty.

In the end, Onanuga’s statement does more damage to the presidency than to Peter Obi. It replaces governance communication with personal insults, substitutes propaganda for proof, and reveals a troubling intolerance for dissent. Nigerians are not asking for perfection — they are asking for honesty, competence, and respect.

A government that truly has results does not fear comparison. And a spokesman confident in his principal’s record does not need to shout insults to be heard.

okosodo:
So if he failed, tjen people will be following him like this even without propaganda. Lets forget this emotional talk

Believeintruth:
All these epistle because PO declared to run? Haha bros this is a new year naaaaaa rest small. How can someone whom you feel is a failure keep giving you sleepless nights?