Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, says after three years of his electoral defeat, former Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, is still feeling bitter.
Onanuga said this in a statement on Wednesday while reacting to Obi’s defection into the African Democratic Congress.
He said Obi continues to claim he was robbed of victory, even though empirical analyses of the poll showed he could not have won and was fortunate to even emerge third because of the polling figures recorded for him in his South East region.
The presidential spokesman also faulted Obi’s speech at his defection, saying the posturing should be taken with a pinch of salt, coming from a politician who was an abysmal failure in a small state like Anambra, which he governed for eight years.
Onanuga stated that no leader can move a country forward by simply copying and pasting models from elsewhere, adding that nations require original thinkers, not copycats.
The statement partly read, “About three years after the 2023 election, Obi, the wandering politician who moved from APGA to PDP to Labour and now ADC — still sounded bitter about coming third.
“At his event, Obi’s bitterness was evident. What concerned me most were his references to books, professors, and other nations to buttress his belief that he has learnt from the masters and that Nigeria should be entrusted to him because he claims to know the secrets of national development.
“However, Obi’s reasoning is flawed. Nations are not identical, and what worked in Indonesia or the USA may not necessarily work in Nigeria.
“This is precisely what President Bola Tinubu has been doing since May 29, 2023, a fact that Obi is too consumed by animosity and his small-mindedness to acknowledge.”
