Media personality Rufai Oseni has criticized the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, for labeling former presidential candidate Peter Obi’s call for President Bola Tinubu’s resignation as “childish”.
The political friction began on Monday when Obi urged President Tinubu to resign, citing a “monumental failure in governance,” worsening economic hardship, and rising insecurity. Obi pointed to the recent resignation of UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer as a standard for political accountability and reminded Tinubu that he had similarly demanded the resignation of then-President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015 under comparable economic and security crises.
Responding to Obi’s demand, Onanuga dismissed the call as hollow and “childish,” arguing that Obi wrongly compared Nigeria’s presidential system to the UK’s parliamentary structure. Read here.
Reacting to the presidency’s rebuttal on Arise News, Oseni questioned the administration’s stance. He asked whether it would also be fair to describe the All Progressives Congress (APC) as “childish” when Tinubu and other party leaders demanded Jonathan’s resignation while they were in the opposition.
Watch a video of him speaking below
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