A question has again been raised on the performance of the Labour Party’s candidate during the 2023 presidential election, Peter Obi, when he was Anambra State Governor for eight years.
He and his followers rate him highly on transparency and prudency but his opponents argue such are not enough.
In a renewed challenge, Special Adviser on Information and Strategy to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Bayo Onanuga, has claimed Obi left Anambra worse than he met it.
Onanuga noted this when he criticised a Twitter post likening Obi Obi to the late Singaporean statesman, Lee Kuan Yew.
An educational influencer, Alex Onyia, had written on his X handle: “Peter Obi is like Lee Kwan Yu of Singapore. Leaders like him come once in a generation.”
Lee Kuan Yew was the founding Prime Minister of Singapore, serving from 1959 to 1990. Widely credited with transforming the Southeast Asian nation from a struggling former British colony into one of the world’s most prosperous and efficient states.
Lee is often cited as a model of visionary, incorruptible, and effective governance. His leadership is noted for its emphasis on meritocracy, rule of law, economic planning, and social discipline.
But, responding, Onanuga wrote: “’I find posts like Onyia’s very amusing. He is possibly posting for some idiots to gobble everything he says.
How can anyone in his right senses compare Peter Obi with the late Singaporean leader, Lee Kuan Yew, a name Onyia misspelt?. We have a proverb in Yoruba: If a man wants to be sharp and bright, he shows the traits in infancy. Peter Obi was not an exemplary governor of Anambra. He didn’t show any vision of development. He did not build a classroom, as has been said irrefutably. Indeed, he left Awka, the capital, worse than he met it.
How can such a man be likened to LKY? Onyia, please delete your egregious joke. You have insulted Nigerians.”
