Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, has dismissed recent claims by the NDC presidential candidate, Peter Obi, alleging that he is being targeted by the government.
In a post on his X handle on Wednesday, Onanuga described Obi’s statements as “unfounded and misleading.”
He was reacting to Obi’s account of an incident involving his car at the airport. According to Onanuga, “by his own account, it must have resulted from flouting parking regulations.”
Onanuga accused Obi of “dragging the government into every personal inconvenience he encounters, often resorting to exaggeration and baseless allegations,” and described him as “a pathological and serial liar.”
The presidential aide also rejected Obi’s claim that he may not be alive for the January 2027 election and that people are being pressured not to invite him to social events.
“These claims lack substance and are designed to attract undue sympathy and deflect attention from his credibility deficit and the problems faced by his SPV and his adopted political association, the NDC,” Onanuga wrote.
He further stated that Mr Obi “has a substantial interest in Fidelity Bank,” noting that “the institution continues to thrive as a result of the current administration’s robust economic reforms. The government is certainly not targeting the bank.”
“Rather than being ‘haunted’ by the government, Mr Obi appears to be grappling with the consequences of his litany of unfounded statements,” he added.
Onanuga said the Tinubu administration “remains fully focused on consolidating its historic and beneficial reforms for the good of all Nigerians” and “has neither the time nor the inclination to be distracted by Mr Obi’s self-serving narratives and lies or by his candidacy, as he constantly diminishes himself with specious, unverifiable utterances.”
