‘Tinubu is Doing Well,’ Peter Obi Speaks, Video Trends

• Peter Obi has said President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is doing well 'because what he promised people is exactly what he is doing'
• The Labour Party presidential candidate in the 2023 election reminded Nigerians about what the president had promised them
• In a video interview on Tuesday night, April 1, monitored by Legit.ng, Obi said the government had fallen short in terms of job creation

Legit.ng journalist Ridwan Adeola Yusuf has over 9 years of experience covering politics, elections, and governance.

FCT. Abuja - A prominent opposition leader in Nigeria, Peter Obi, has reflected on President Bola Tinubu's two years in office so far.

Obi spoke on Tuesday night, April 1, 2025, in a video interview with Arise News, monitored by Legit.ng. The interview is currently trending on X (formerly Twitter).

The former Anambra state governor said:

"He [Tinubu] is doing well because what he promised people is exactly what he is doing; that he would start and continue from where the previous government [Muhammadu Buhari] stopped. [As] someone who met the dollar at 300 to 400, and now it is 1,500, he has done fantastic."

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The interview can be watched below:

However, on whether the Bola Tinubu administration had improved Nigeria, Obi refused to applaud the current government.

He explained:

“When you talk about improvement, they are no things you say; they are things people feel, they are things people see. I have listened to people say jobs are being created—where are the jobs? It's not the question of saying, 'Oh, the investors are coming back'; where are they investing?”

Furthermore, the Labour Party (LP) chieftain criticised the state of democracy in Nigeria, stating that it was non-existent in the country.

"There is no democracy in Nigeria today; Nigeria is not a democratic country. Let's stop telling ourselves lies. If you look at all the tenets, all the yardsticks of measuring democracy, it doesn't exist here.

Obi said that by a simple definition, democracy was a government of the people, by the people and for the people.

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"Today, the government we have is not of the people, is not by the people because it wasn't their votes. I am not just talking about the presidency, across the nation. Look at what is happening in Edo. Can you call that democracy? That was not the vote of the people. And it is not for the people.

"For a country that just spent N21 billion to renovate the house of the Vice President and you cannot even have a primary school for kids, who are going to be leaders of Nigeria tomorrow, then there is a problem."

Peter Obi counters Tinubu on state of nation

Earlier, Legit.ng reported that Obi criticised Nigeria's current administration, stating that the country's political, economic, and security conditions had worsened significantly in recent years.

He mentioned the purported economic decline, dropping in status from being Africa's largest economy in 2014, with a GDP of $574 billion, to ranking fourth, with a current GDP of about $200 billion.

Proofreading by James Ojo, copy editor at Legit.ng.

Source: Legit.ng