“You will not be able to comment on Tinubu if democracy has collapsed,” answered Obi’s president

The president of Nigeria has answered a former presidential candidate from the Labor Party (LP), Peter Obi’s comment about the collapse of democracy under the President of the Tinubu Bola, saying he would not be able to live in Abuja and make comments like that if democracy completely collapsed.

Obi has, when speaking at the 60th anniversary of the former Governor of the State of IMO and former Deputy Chairperson of the House of Representatives, Emeka Imedoha, said that all Democratic structures had collapsed under Tinubu after the imposition of emergency states in the river state by the president.

“They began in 1999 and put the foundation. Some people came and added decking, others tried to raise it to the first floor, but then some people came and knocked everything down,” Obi said.

“That is the situation that we are experiencing now – everything has been torn down, and nothing works. I can talk about this with experience. I became governor through the court. When former President Olusegun Obasanjo and Atiku Abubakar were in the government, I did not pay a single court.

“That could not happen in Nigeria today. When I was impeached, the President sent people to intervene on my name. Kenamanani came and asked the DPR not to pay for me.

“Today, the president is impermembiving people directly. At that time, they begged at my house not to imitate me, even though they were in PDP, and I was in APGA.

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“They begged, and President Obasanjo personally called me, asking, ‘Peter, you’re fine?’ Even when I was finally impected, he called again to examine me, said, ‘Are you fine?

But when responding to the statement in a statement on Tuesday, the Presidential Spokesman, Bayo Onanuga, described Obi as ‘individuals who were dissatisfied and dissatisfied’ who did not mean well for Nigeria.

In that statement he shared in his x -grip, onanuga said:

“I listened several times with the statement of former Governor Peter Obi in this clip, where he claimed that democracy had collapsed in Nigeria. His hyperbolic statement, which was designed for headlines, lack of deep reflection and solid logical foundation.

“How has democracy that has strengthened for the past 26 years it has been said to have collapsed? Only Peter Obi is dissatisfied and dissatisfied, who benefit from the freedom of speech provided by democracy, can understand such a democratic fall through the lens.

“If democracy is collapsed, as Peter claimed, and we live under a regime that opposes the principles of democracy, he will not be able to make his comments on Monday at Kolokium Emeka Ihedoha.

“I urged him to watch the words and refrain from playing to the gallery.”

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