June 12: Obi to Tinubu: Stop governing Nigeria by remote control, go round, feel citizens pains

Obi and Tinubu

…Bemoans growing corruption, insecurity, hunger, impunity

The Labour Party Presidential Candidate in the 2023 election, Peter Obi, has taken a comprehensive look at the two-year reign of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and concluded that a lot is not right in governance delivery and policies of the administration.

In a national broadcast in Abuja to mark the 12th Democracy Day titled

‘Democracy in Decline Reflecting on Two Years of Tinubu’s Governance’, Obi gave low ratings to the handling of governance in the last two years.

After sector by sector analysis of the midterm report of the administration, raging from corruption, prudence, economy insecurity and politics, etc Obi said that a lot is going wrong and called on the President to note that “Governing by remote is not what Nigerians need, you need to go round and get firsthand” per cent President should stop touring outside Nigeria and use his remaining 2 years to tour the Nigerian states instead. Mr. President you have already made over 30 international trips, spending nearly 150 days abroad. If you tour Nigeria’s 36 states and dedicate just 2 days to tour each state, it would take only 72 days for you to do so, less than half the time you have already spent in other areas of the country on foreign trips. You need to go around the country to see”

On how democracy can be deepened, Obi appealed to President Tinubu “to emulate late President Umaru Yar’Adua, who was honest enough to admit the process that brought him into office was wrong and not sufficiently credible, ” and insisted on rapidly doing what is right to save our democracy. And similarly, Presidlabs Goodluck Ebele Jonathan saved our nascent democracy by accepting defeat even before the election result, announced in the dark.