A public commentator, Reno Omokri, says President Bola Tinubu has done far better than the 2023 Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi, would have done.
Omokri said this in an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today, stressing that the removal of the fuel subsidy by Tinubu was something Obi had said he would do if he won the presidential election in 2023.
“I still hold that view that the President is by far better than anything Peter Obi would have done. We can go into specifics.
“What Peter Obi was talking about, that the President mishandled was fuel subsidy and Peter Obi was being clever by half because after that interview, I brought out another interview that he had given — incidentally, that interview was on Channels — where he told the public that if he was elected as President, fuel subsidy would go immediately.
“So, what did the President do? The President took out the fuel subsidy on day one, immediately. So, would he (Obi) have done it differently,” he asked.
The former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan stated further that Tinubu’s decision received the commendation of renowned financial institutions.
“And if you look at the World Bank, if you look at the IMF, these guys have said what the President did was right.
“It brought some pain but it was the necessary decision. But let’s assume that the World Bank and IMF, maybe they are neocolonialists, so let’s take them aside.
“What about Moody’s, what about Fitch? In the whole world, Fitch is the number one rating agency and Fitch has upgraded Nigeria to a stable B-positive because it said the reforms by the Bola Tinubu administration are working, especially the removal of the subsidy and the floatation of the naira.
“They did that last year, I think that was on December 17, and then afterward, Moody’s followed and they upgraded Nigeria,” he stated.
According to him, the reforms, particularly the removal of the subsidy and the floatation of the naira, were working.
Omokri added that based on Tinubu’s performance, it would be wrong for anybody not to support the President.
