Reno Omokri, a public affairs commentator, has claimed that President Bola Tinubu has done far better than Mr Peter Obi, the 2023 presidential candidate of Labour Party would have done.
Omokri, a fierce critic of Obi, also claimed that nobody paid him to promote President Tinubu’s administration.
He said this in an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today, where he claimed that he was using his money to work for the current administration.
“I still hold that view that the President is by far better than anything Peter Obi would have done. We can go into specifics.
“What Peter Obi was talking about, that the President mishandled was fuel subsidy and Peter Obi was being clever by half because after that interview, I brought out another interview that he had given — incidentally, that interview was on Channels — where he told the public that if he was elected as President, fuel subsidy would go immediately.
“So, what did the President do? The President took out the fuel subsidy on day one, immediately. So, would he (Obi) have done it differently," he asked.
He added that, “And if you look at the World Bank, if you look at the IMF, these guys have said what the President did was right.
“It brought some pain but it was the necessary decision. But let’s assume that the World Bank and IMF, maybe they are neocolonialists, so let’s take them aside.
“What about Moody’s, what about Fitch? In the whole world, Fitch is the number one rating agency and Fitch has upgraded Nigeria to a stable B-positive because it said the reforms by the Bola Tinubu administration are working, especially the removal of the subsidy and the floatation of the naira.
“They did that last year, I think that was on December 17, and then afterward, Moody’s followed and they upgraded Nigeria.”
Omokri, while dismissing claims that he was being paid, said his actions were solely based on patriotism.
He queried: "So who was paying me between 2025 and 2023 when I was traveling over on matters concerning Nigeria?
"Why would anyone give me money? I'm doing this not just for the love I have for Tinubu but the love I have for Nigeria.
"Right now, I'm in Lagos and I don't live here. I came to Lagos because people have spread wrong information about the Lagos-Calaba coastal highway.
"I bought a ticket with my own money, then I came and gathered journalists. I also gathered members of the public, ordinary Nigerians. I bought a drone with my own money to verify that indeed the 30 kilometers highway is complete".