The Presidency has leveled accusations against Peter Obi, the 2023 Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, alleging that he introduced "two dangerous things" into Nigerian politics during the recent elections. Bayo Onanuga, President Bola Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, made this assertion on Monday, accusing Obi of stoking religious and ethnic tensions during the recent electoral process in Nigeria.
Onanuga contends that Obi's actions had a divisive impact on the political landscape, implying that they exacerbated existing tensions along religious and ethnic lines.
Furthermore, Onanuga emphasized that Tinubu’s administration is not preoccupied with Obi and his supporters, known as the Obidients. During an appearance on Mic On with Seun Okinbaloye, the presidential aide conveyed confidence that Tinubu’s administration is maintaining its focus and not allowing itself to be distracted.
He stated: “As of now, we are busy with governance and we don’t want our attention diverted from the focus of what the government is trying to do. We are very busy, we’re not even looking at them now.
“What I know about the campaign of Obi was that for the first time in a very long while in our country, we had a candidate who was inflaming ethnic passion and that was the way the election went at that time, he was inflaming ethnic and religious passions, bringing two dangerous things to our politics: ethnicity and religion.
“That was what he did and those things were dangerous to our politics.”
