Peter Obi, the 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate, has again criticised President Bola Tinubu’s administration, saying his government has not delivered on some of its promises to Nigerians.
After almost two years of Tinubu administration, Obi
believes the President has not made any visible impact on Nigerians.
The ex-governor of Anambra State assessed the All
Progressives Congress (APC) government in the evening of Tuesday, April 1,
2025, when he appeared on Arise Television’s Prime Time programme.
Obi said that if he were president, he would have ensured
that Nigerians saw considerable change in critical sectors.
Highlighting some of the things he would have done
differently, the LP chieftain said in two years, he would have tackled
corruption and reduced the cost of governance in a manner that would be visible
to Nigerians.
“The President that is there today how many years has he
spent, two years and you could see where we are. That means you can change
things in two years. If I was there in two years, you would have seen a
considerable change in critical areas. I would have tackled corruption head on.
I would have reduced cost of governance and you would see it, people would feel
it,” he said.
Obi said his administration would have ensured that borrowed
money was invested properly in healthcare, stressing that 70 percent of the
sector is currently inoperative.
“Our primary healthcare today, 70 percent (of it) are not
functional and we spent over N35 billion on conference centre, which
conference? who is coming for the conference? You need to invest your money
properly, You would have been seeing borrowed money invested in critical
areas,” he submitted.
Citing Banglandesh as an example, the ex-governor said his
administration would use Nigeria’s land size to turn it into a rice-producing
country.
“In Bangladesh, a country with one 148,000 km² of land is
producing about 60 million metric tons of rice and us, with over six times that
size of land cannot do 10 percent of that,” Obi said.
Lastly, Obi agreed with President Tinubu’s devaluation of
the naira; however, he faulted the manner in which the policy was implemented.
He said if he were the President, he would have floated the
naira in an organised manner, adding that floating the currency is meant to
support productivity.
He said, “There’s nothing wrong in devaluation, but I would
have allowed the naira to float but I would have done it in an organised
manner. There will be productivity. The idea of devaluing your currency,
allowing it to float is that you have productivity so you can export, so people
can come and buy.”
According to him, floating the naira without productivity is
a double whammy.
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