June 12: Stop governing Nigeria by remote control – Peter Obi charges Tinubu

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Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the 2023 Labour Party, has accused President Bola Tinubu of halting Nigeria’s governance by remote control.

Obi tasked Tinubu with touring Nigeria and experiencing the suffering of its people.

He made the accusation after carefully examining Tinubu’s two years in office and coming to the conclusion that many aspects of the administration’s policies and governance delivery were flawed.

Obi rated the government in the past two years poorly during a news conference held in Abuja to commemorate the 12th Democracy Day, entitled “Democracy in Decline Reflecting on Two Years of Tinubu’s Governance.”

Numerous issues are occurring, according to Obi, who urged the President to observe that “Governing by remote is not what Nigerians need, you need to go round and get firsthand” percent President should stop touring outside Nigeria and use his remaining 2 years to tour the Nigerian states instead.

He said: “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.

“Today, more than 18.3 million Nigerian children are out of school, the highest number in the world. The quality of education in Nigeria is also deteriorating rapidly. Many of our children are being taught sciences without any science labs and computer studies without any computers.

“Students are now writing WAEC and other national exams in the dark, relying on candles. There are now even glitches in their exams.”

Regarding healthcare services, Obi stated that things had gotten far worse as “the National Primary Health Care Development Agency decried that less than 20% of over 30,000 Primary Health Care Centres across the nation are fully functional.

He added: “I have even, recently visited some Health centres where delivery rooms were without toilets. The United Nations recently reported Nigeria as the world’s worst country to give birth, with one death recorded every seven minutes” Ditto Nigerian businesses that have continued to collapse at alarming rates.

“Within the past two years, approximately 7 million Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) shut down across Nigeria. Over 80 manufacturing companies have permanently closed their operations.

“Funding costs, including the cost of raw materials and energy, have surged to an incredible level, forcing these manufacturers to shut down.

“Over 15 major multinationals (including GlaxoSmithKline, Diageo, Procter & Gamble, and Shoprite) have exited Nigeria due to the harsh operating environment”

According to him, the food insecurity-related hunger crisis has gotten worse over the past two years. According to the Global Hunger Index (GHI) study, Fulgaria is currently among the world’s most hungry nations, indicating that our hunger condition has deteriorated. “Millions can no longer afford food due to the high costs of food and nonexistent disposable income.”

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