Peter Obi’s Leadership Far Away From Lee Kuan Yew’s Legacy – Onanuga

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Presidency on Tuesday slammed a social media user who likened Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, to Minister Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s founding Prime Minister.

President Bola Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, rubbished the comparison, describing it as amusing and insulting, adding that Obi does not have the leadership capacity and development record to be compared with the Asian statesman.

The African Examiner writes that the controversial remark was made by a netizen, #winexviv with the username Alex Onyia, who posted on X (formerly Twitter).

Onyia writes: “Peter Obi is like Lee Kuan Yu of Singapore. Leaders like him come once in a generation.”

Reacting via his verified X handle, Onanuga stated that the comparison was not only funny but also an affront to Nigerians.

“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,” Onanuga writes.

Onanuga also slammed the former Anambra State governor’s record as he alleged that Obi did not show any clear vision in his time in office.

He said, “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.”

Lee Kuan Yew was Singapore’s Prime Minister from 1959 to 1990 and is widely credited for transforming the island nation from a Third World port city into a global financial and technological hub.

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