NPP: Presidency blasts Peter Obi over mis-leading economy’s claims

The Presidency has lashed the third positioned ex-Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi on his erroneous review of the Nigeria’s Gross domestic product (GDP), preceding to the Nationwide Planned Protest (NPP).

The Special Adviser to President Tinubu on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga described the failed Presidential candidate untrue claims as a move to destabilized the country at this resilience time.

On Tuesday, Peter Obi tweeted on his X’ handle that “When Nigeria returned to democratic governance in 1999, it maintained an average GDP growth of about 6.72% for 16 years from 1999-2014. The impressive growth trajectory, unfortunately, was not sustained by the then-new government and then sank into a recession in 2016 with a negative growth of -1.58% and 0.82% in 2017. For the past 9 years, Nigeria’s economy has seen unprecedented retrogression on many fronts.”

Reacting to Obi’s assertion, the Presidential aide put into words that the, “Labour Party failed Presidential candidate, Peter Obi have come up with his misleading and half-truth baked statistic afresh.

“The big question is why this economic review at this time?,” Onanuga grilled.

The Presidency, however, clarified that Obi’s, “motive is clear: he wants to work up his mob plotting to destabilized the country from next week,” Onanuga said.