Presidential spokesperson Bayo Onanuga has stated that Peter Obi was not an exemplary governor during his eight-year tenure as governor of Anambra State.

This was after a social media user, Alex Onyia, likened Obi to Singaporean leader Lee Kuan Yew, saying, "Leaders like him come once in a generation."

Amused by the post, Onanuga lashed out at Obi, who came third in the 2023 presidential election on the Labour Party platform.

He said, "I find posts like Onyia’s very amusing. He is possibly posting for some idiots to gobble everything he says. How can anyone in his right senses compare Peter Obi with the late Singaporean leader, Lee Kuan Yew, a name Onyia misspelt?. We have a proverb in Yoruba: If a man wants to be sharp and bright, he shows the traits in infancy. Peter Obi was not an exemplary governor of Anambra. He didn't show any vision of development. He did not build a classroom, as has been said irrefutably. Indeed, he left Awka, the capital, worse than he met it

"How can such a man be likened to LKY?

"Onyia, please delete your egregious joke. You have insulted Nigerians."

ASA