Ambassador-designate Reno Omokri has slammed former presidential candidate Peter Obi following a World Bank global report that says Nigerians are getting richer under President Bola Tinubu.

The World Bank has just raised Nigeria's projected 2026 GDP growth rate from 3.7% to 4.4% and has also pegged our full-year 2025 GDP growth at 4.2%, which beat its own forecast of 3.5%.

A significant driver of this projected economic growth is the Tax Reform Act, which kicked off on New Year's Day.

In a Facebook post, Omokri slammed Obi for calling for the suspension of the tax law. "Mind you, this is the same tax law that Peter Obi said should be suspended," he said.

"As a Nigerian, do you now see that if we are ever unfortunate enough to hand Obi the keys to Aso Rock, the first thing to suffer will be our economy?

"Don't forget that Peter Obi is a trader who knows little or nothing about economic and fiscal policies, which is why he is the ONLY Anambra Governor under whom poverty increased.

"Please fact-check me: The poverty rate in Anambra was 41.4% in 2003, before you, Peter Obi, took office, and rose to 53.7% by 2009, during your governorship, a 29.7% increase.

"If poverty is your objective, then vote for Peter Obi, the Second Class Philosophy graduate, in 2027. However, if prosperity is your goal, you are best served by a First Class Accountancy Graduate in the person of President Bola Tinubu.

"Nigeria needs a President like Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, who builds roads, bridges, schools, hospitals, and other infrastructure, not a carpetbagger like Peter Obi, who built breweries and refused to build schools so that Anambra people can be drunk on alcohol instead of drunk on knowledge!"

ASA