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Former presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has accused President Bola Tinubu of abandoning Nigeria at a time of historic national distress.
This comes after records showed that the president spent 196 out of 365 days abroad in 2025, while the country descended deeper into poverty, hunger, insecurity, and mass unemployment.

To him, Tinubu’s prolonged absence, including a European holiday since December without a New Year’s address, represents a collapse of leadership under his presidency.

He warned that “a nation of over 200 million people cannot be governed by press releases and aides while its president is missing in action.

Obi, on his verified X handle on Monday, January 12, argued that Nigeria is now home to the largest population of extremely poor people on earth, one of the hungriest nations globally, and a country where over 80 million young people remain unemployed, yet its president has failed to speak directly to the people at a critical moment.

He condemned what he called the “outsourcing of leadership,” noting that Nigerians learned of foreign military strikes on Nigerian soil through U.S. and international media rather than from their own president.

Referencing a controversial digitally generated presidential photo earlier this year, Obi said, “Leadership is not all about dishing out AI-generated images or press statements; it is standing before your people when they are afraid, hungry, and uncertain.

According to Obi, Tinubu’s repeated foreign trips and prolonged silence have created a dangerous vacuum, weakening national unity at a time when Nigeria urgently needs direction, reassurance, and collective purpose.

He, however, noted that in times of crisis, absence is not neutrality but failure, and quickly added that no economic reform, security strategy, or political agenda could survive in a country where citizens feel abandoned by their own government.

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The people's president, My president, always on point

Bayo Onanuga is busy churning out press statements unsupervised while Tinubu was last seen wobbling in the United Arab Emirates. What has Nigeria gained from these incessant trips where he clearly looks lost and out of place?

A man with no honour, no dignity, no self respect. So you are no longer looking for the missing president Tinubu again, it's now about running the Nigeria governance from the foreign hotels

Nigerians will never allow such calamity to get near the Aso rock.

Anyone that's still believing in this man, it's either that person is politically tribal or politically blind

Having study Peter Obi for years, I swear to God, this man can never win me in any single governance arguments. Walahi it sure for me die.

His emptiness and shallowness are just too concentrated

Well said sir

helinues:
A man with no honour, no dignity, no self respect. So you are no longer looking for the missing president Tinubu again, it's now about running the Nigeria governance from the foreign hotels

Nigerians will never allow such calamity to get near the Aso rock.

Anyone that's still believing in this man, it's either that person is politically tribal or politically blind

Read ur statement again and tell if u made any sense.

DonEd:
Read ur statement again and tell if u made any sense.

It wasn't meant for those with fixated mindset

Thank you

helinues:
It wasn't meant for those with fixated mindset

Thank you

What a great response, well said sir.

helinues:
Having study Peter Obi for years, I swear to God, this man can never win me in any single governance arguments. Walahi it sure for me die.

His emptiness and shallowness are just too concentrated

nyesom wike kid is rumour to be contesting house of rep in next election which one are you contesting let start from there before you dey put hand where you no reach.small waist dey shake

Press their neck

helinues:
Having study Peter Obi for years, I swear to God, this man can never win me in any single governance arguments. Walahi it sure for me die.

His emptiness and shallowness are just too concentrated

Obi is just an opportunist.

A shameless one.

He that sat in Anambra as governor and never travelled for 8 years, yet all he built of note was a BLASTED BREWERY for his beer belly.

Early morning, someone will enter Nairaland and start crying on cs with so much pain.

Na waoh 😂

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We must all contribute to make Nigeria better....

Basket mouth don open mouth again ooo

Lowlife entity

helinues:
A man with no honour, no dignity, no self respect. So you are no longer looking for the missing president Tinubu again, it's now about running the Nigeria governance from the foreign hotels

Nigerians will never allow such calamity to get near the Aso rock.

Anyone that's still believing in this man, it's either that person is politically tribal or politically blind

...It's even from same abroad that the President is signing a trade pact with the UAE, a positive economic move for Nigeria.

helinues:
A man with no honour, no dignity, no self respect. So you are no longer looking for the missing president Tinubu again, it's now about running the Nigeria governance from the foreign hotels

Nigerians will never allow such calamity to get near the Aso rock.

Anyone that's still believing in this man, it's either that person is politically tribal or politically blind

helinues:
A man with no honour, no dignity, no self respect. So you are no longer looking for the missing president Tinubu again, it's now about running the Nigeria governance from the foreign hotels

Nigerians will never allow such calamity to get near the Aso rock.

Anyone that's still believing in this man, it's either that person is politically tribal or politically blind

Allow the clown to keep flapping his gums like a faulty tap that no plumber can fix. I once thought he was marginally better than his handle mobs, whose entire political strategy is loud but useless social-media noise.

Imagine the irony, the same fellow who was loudly asking about the whereabouts of Tinubu a few hours ago is now speaking as though amnesia is a constitutional right.

And when he inevitably gets roasted for such brain-dead remarks, his zombie followers swarm social media, bleating, “Why is everyone talking about Pitobi?” In their jaundiced imagination, silence is mandatory, no rebuttals allowed, so that after two days they can reappear triumphantly to declare their messiah correct, arguing that if he were wrong, someone would have responded.

One can only assume the Agulu clown simply gathered everyone who shares his single recycled thought, with his “Special Adviser,” and generously equipped them with internet-enabled phones. The assignment is simple, type furiously on social media, echoing his nonsense.

Tinubu's incompetence is coming out to the fore on a daily