He Is Licensed To Lie As He Likes, His Supporters Love His Lies — Presidency Deconstructs Peter Obi In 4 Quotable Quotes
The Presidency has deconstructed Peter Obi in four damning quotes, underscoring key excerpts from the Anambra State government’s latest response to his alleged lies and warning Nigerians about his candidacy.
Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser Information and Strategy to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, shared the deconstruction on a series of x posts.
Deconstructing Peter Obi (1): On blind loyalty by charmed followers
“There is this dangerous trend in our public discourse whereby there are two sets of standards: one for everyone else and another for H.E. Peter Obi. This is one former governor of Anambra who is not on record to have ever complimented any of his predecessors or successors. He spent eight years in the office demarketing Dr Mbadinuju and Dr Ngige and has spent the last 13 years, with his paid media team, Val Obienyem, and dozens of others, daily demarketing his successors. He is the only next big thing after God. And indeed, to his credit, the media packaging has worked.”
Deconstructing Peter Obi (2): He is licensed to lie as he likes. His supporters love his lies
“No one blames Obi for being a pathological liar. What one hears is, ‘Yes, we know that he is lying, but must you be the one to expose the lies of a brother—even if his lies are hurting you?’ Hypocrisy and multiple standards everywhere. These do not advance the cause of public accountability. And consistency in our quest for strong ethical politics and governance.
Those who love H.E. Peter Obi should advise him to stop lying as a habit so as to avoid the constant embarrassment of confronting inconvenient facts and truth. It is also our advice to him as a brother.”
Deconstructing Obi (3): Woe betide the person who exposes Obi as a liar
“Only Peter Obi has the right to lie about and against anyone and everyone, and if you dare to expose his lies, you must be the ‘sinner’, the ‘saboteur’.
The double standard is everywhere around Peter Obi. For Obi’s supporters, ‘H.E. Peter Obi has the right to choose who to support and campaign for, even when he is not on the ballot. For our governor (Governor Soludo) to dare to exercise the same right and support anyone else but Peter Obi, he must be crucified'”
Deconstructing Obi (4): Obi’s governance philosophy is structured by his trading experience — Unfit to govern Nigeria
“Your Excellency Peter Obi, governance and development are different from trading where everything is primarily about profit and loss account without much consideration for human life. Your response to the thousands of workers and pensioners you owed and your reducing development to the size of bank accounts and interest income while millions die in poverty don’t show good signs. Indeed, if government savings and interest income constitute an indicator of governance performance, perhaps it should have been one of the MDGs or SDGs and governments would start competing as to who saves the most rather than who improves the security and welfare of the people the most. The gloating over savings and interest income…is certainly an unfortunate economic argument”.
