Onanuga slams Obi’s ‘wandering’ politics, says Tinubu delivers ‘homegrown wins’
Bayo Onanuga
Abdullateef Fowewe
Presidential aide, Bayo Onanuga has unleashed a scathing critique, accusing former Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi of bitterness and political nomadism after reportedly joining the African Democratic Congress (ADC).
Onanuga in a statement shared on X painted Obi as a “wandering politician” who has hopped from APGA to PDP, Labour, and now ADC, three years after “his third-place finish in the 2023 election”.
He dismissed Obi’s persistent claims of electoral robbery, noting that “empirical analyses of the poll showed he could not have won and was fortunate to even emerge third because of the anomalous polling figures recorded for him in his South East region.”
Onanuga highlighted Obi’s evident frustration, where the ex-Anambra governor invoked books, professors, and foreign models like Indonesia and the USA to tout his development blueprint.
Onanuga scoffed at this, calling it posturing from “a politician who was an abysmal failure in a small state like Anambra, which he governed for 8 years.”
He added a sharp jab, “Because Obi sorely lacks the leadership pedigree, beyond being a successful importer, only the madman he consults in Onitsha would be comfortable handing over Nigeria to him.”
Onanuga contrasted Obi’s “flawed” copy-paste approach with President Bola Tinubu’s “homegrown solutions,” crediting the administration with bold reforms since May 2023. Key achievements he listed include eliminating petrol subsidies, restructuring the economy, boosting gas development, attracting investments, stabilising the exchange rate, decelerating inflation, and launching mega projects like the Lagos-Calabar and Sokoto-Badagry superhighways.
“With tax reforms beginning in January, the Tinubu administration is set to harmonise the historically fragmented tax regime, increase the tax-to-GDP ratio, enhance revenue, and boost prosperity,” Onanuga wrote.
Predicting Obi’s future, Onanuga quipped that the Labour defector will “play second fiddle and end up being Atiku’s running mate in 2027, like we witnessed in 2019,” blinded by “animosity and his small-mindedness” to Tinubu’s progress.
