Nigerian poet, journalist and blogger, Tolulope Ogunlesi, has knocked the presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 general election, Peter Obi, for his alleged statement on social media following the recently donated 25,000 tonnes of wheat from the Ukraine Government as emergency food assistance to 1.3 million vulnerable, crisis-affected people in Nigeria’s northeastern region.
Obi had posted on his X handle that it is disheartening that a war-hit nation is now donating food to Nigeria.
According to Obi, while the gesture from Ukraine is laudable, it speaks volumes as to the failures of the Nigerian government to cater for its people.
He noted that this development underscores a national disgrace that “stems from years of leadership failure, necessitating urgent reflection and a reordering of our national priorities and resource management and allocation”.