The Presidency has described Peter Obi's call for President Bola Tinubu to resign as childish, hollow and anti-democratic, firing back at the opposition presidential candidate a day after APC swept Saturday's by-elections.
Presidential spokesman and Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, said Obi's comparison of Tinubu's situation with that of outgoing British Prime Minister Keir Starmer reflected a "selective and distorted view of Nigeria's realities."
"Nigeria does not run a parliamentary system of government like the UK," Onanuga said in a statement on Monday.
"We run a presidential system, with the president elected to a fixed four-year term."
Onanuga pointed to APC's victories in Enugu, Nasarawa, Ondo and Rivers as an early referendum of sorts on Tinubu's popularity, and cited a string of economic indicators, including foreign reserves above $50 billion, oil production of 1.8 million barrels per day, and an All-Share Index that has risen from 50,000 to over 250,000, as evidence of progress.
On security, the Presidency said over 15,000 terrorists had been neutralised or taken off the streets since Tinubu assumed office, and accused Obi of hypocrisy, pointing to what it described as Obi's own failure to secure lives and property during his tenure as Anambra governor.
Obi, the presidential candidate of the newly formed NDC, had earlier on Sunday called on Tinubu to emulate Starmer and step down, arguing that the president had failed to deliver on key campaign promises around cost of living, security and electricity.
The Presidency said Obi should "wait until the presidential election to know what the people think of Tinubu's government," and dismissed his social media post as an attempt to "harangue the President out of office."
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