- The Presidency has fiercely rejected a call by the Nigeria Democratic Congress presidential candidate, Peter Obi, for President Bola Tinubu to resign, describing the demand as an anti-democratic distraction rooted in a total failure to understand Nigeria’s presidential system.
- Executive leadership stated that the overwhelming victories recorded by the All Progressives Congress in the just-concluded Ekiti governorship election and senatorial polls across Nasarawa, Enugu, Ondo, and Rivers serve as a direct popular referendum backing the administration.
- The administration countered claims of national decline with robust metrics, revealing that Nigeria’s foreign reserves have surged past $50 billion, federation revenue is on track to hit N30 trillion this year, and the stock market index has skyrocketed from 50,000 to over 250,000.
The Presidency has fiercely rebuffed a call by Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, for President Bola Tinubu’s resignation, describing the demand as childish, hollow, and a desperate distraction designed to mask his own fading political relevance.
Eko Hot Blog reports that in a scathing official statement signed by the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, the executive branch declared that the ruling All Progressives Congress’s unbroken sequence of landslide victories in recent regional and senatorial polls across Ekiti, Nasarawa, Enugu, Ondo, and Rivers serves as a direct popular referendum validating President Tinubu’s administration.
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The executive backlash was triggered by a social media broadcast published by Peter Obi on X, where he argued that Nigeria had plunged into its worst possible structural state and urged President Tinubu to follow the example of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who had voluntarily resigned from office just hours prior.
Dismissing the comparison as a gross display of constitutional ignorance, Onanuga countered that Obi fundamentally misunderstands the foundational layout of Nigeria’s governance.
He reminded the former Anambra State governor that Nigeria operates a fixed four-year presidential system, rather than a parliamentary model where prime ministers can easily exit based on legislative shifts.
To systematically dismantle Obi’s narrative of national decline, the Presidency rolled out a high-powered suite of verifiable economic and operational data recorded under the APC administration since May 2023.
The statement revealed that Nigeria’s economy has posted consistent quarterly GDP growth surpassing global averages, with a sustained trade surplus and foreign reserves surging past the $50 billion milestone.
Furthermore, domestic oil production has aggressively reversed its historical collapse, jumping from under one million barrels per day to 1.8 million barrels.
This structural recovery has pushed projected federation revenues to over N30 trillion this year, a massive surge from the N7.7 trillion registered in 2022, with a recorded N15.7 trillion already safely collected in the first five months of 2026 alone.
The report also emphasized the unprecedented expansion of the Nigerian stock market, where the All-Share Index skyrocketed from 50,000 to over 250,000, injecting massive wealth directly into the portfolios of over six million local investors.
Onanuga point-blank mocked Obi’s personal governance record, labeling his past tenure in Anambra State a colossal security failure.
In contrast, the statement noted that President Tinubu’s advanced counter-terrorism strategies and high-profile drone deployments have successfully removed over 15,000 terrorists from national forests, neutralized multiple high-ranking insurgent kingpins, and kept Nigeria’s academic calendar entirely free of labor strikes for three consecutive years.
While acknowledging that global commodity disruptions, specifically the recent American-Israeli air strikes on Iran and the resulting maritime blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, temporarily slowed down the domestic drop in inflation, the Presidency reconfirmed that the administration’s long-term reforms are paying off.
Warning Obi to drop his reliance on internet harangues and wait for the January 2027 polls, the executive stated that the recent electoral defeats suffered by the newly formed NDC are clear signs that Nigerians have chosen the progressive trajectory of the APC over the opposition’s appetite for bad news.
