President Bola Tinubu’s Special Adviser Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, has charged the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, presidential candidate, Peter Obi, to stop dreaming that he won the 2023 presidential election because he lost the poll.

Onanuga said Obi should stop living in denial and delusion because he came a distant third.

He was reacting to Obi’s latest interview on Channels television where he claimed to have won the 2023 presidential election but was rigged out.

In a statement he signed, Onanuga described the interview as a “PR” disaster for the former Anambra State governor.

Reacting to the interview, Onanuga said: “Two issues caught my attention while I watched him. First, when his interviewer, Seun Okinbaloye, questioned him about his political nomadism, he tried to make the question a non-issue, saying, with a smirk on his face, that he has not done anything different from what President Bola Tinubu has done in his political odyssey.

“No, Mr Obi. Tinubu has not been jumping from one ideologically different party to another. Since he joined party politics in 1991/92, Tinubu has stayed the progressive path all the way. He started with the Social Democratic Party and won an election to the Senate on the party’s platform, polling the highest vote ever by any candidate in the country.

“The second issue is that Seun gave you a golden opportunity to redeem yourself in respect of the outcome of the 2023 election. You lost, Peter. You didn’t win that election.

“You did well in the election, no doubt- a politician with no structure in the states, except the noisy followers on X, Instagram and Facebook. But I was utterly surprised that more than three years after the Supreme Court threw away your petition, you are still in denial of the loss, and you still nurse the delusion that you won the election, echoing the sentiment of your gullible followers on the streets. Mr Obi, it is time you accepted the stark reality of the loss. Stop dreaming of a victory that you never had.”

The African Democratic Congress, ADC, says President Bola Tinubu’s administration has crossed many lines in the governance of Nigeria as a nation.

The national spokesman of the party, Bolaji Abdullahi, made this statement during an interview on Symfoni TV.

He lamented that the President is ruling the country with impunity with the help of the National Assembly headed by Senate President Godswill Akpabio.

“This Tinubu-led APC government has crossed the line so many times that we have forgotten where the line was in the first place.

“The principle of checks and balances is intended to create what is called positive tension between the various arms of government-the executive, the judiciary, and the legislature-in order to prevent dictatorship. That is why the National Assembly and the judiciary exist.

“But what you find is that the three arms of government now appear to have all gathered together on President Tinubu’s mandate and willing to do only what the president wants.

“This is the first time we have a government that has not implemented national budget. Budget is the law passed by the representatives of the people, the National Assembly. And the moment it is signed by the president, it becomes a law.

“When you are running three budgets at the same time, you have not implemented any, what do you call that? A few weeks ago, an international organization told us that there are about 8.8 trillion naira unbudgeted expenditure carried out by this government.
If that is not an impeachable offense, if it is actually a violation of the law, then what is?
“How many times has this government flagrantly disobeyed court orders. How many times have they flagrantly done things that are against the law of Nigeria and got away with it with the active collusion of the National Assembly under Senate President Godswill Akpabio?

“Everything that this government has done is to undermine opposition political parties. All these court cases that you see, where are they coming from? This government has undermined democracy itself, and that is against the spirit of our constitution,” the ADC spokesman said.

The African Democratic Congress, ADC, has said that the President Bola Tinubu administration will be held responsible if anything happens to former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai.

The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Bolaji Abdullahi, made this assertion in an interview on Symfoni TV.

Abdullahi said El-Rufai’s detention is not about the law, justice or crime but about politics.

“If anything happens to El-Rufai while he remains in state custody, President Bola Tinubu and his administration will bear full responsibility.

“El-Rufai is not being held today because he committed any crime. That would have been left for the court to decide. Let the court pronounce that he is guilty or is not guilty.

“But to continue to hold him interminably speaks to something else, and that is why it is clear to us that the desire or the intention of this APC government is to continue to hold El-Rufai to ensure that he does not participate in this election and strengthen the opposition. That is exactly what they plan to do.

“This same El-Rufai fought for President Bola Tinubu when when everyone in the Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet didn’t want him,” he said.