The Peter Obi Media Reach (POMR) has challenged Minister Dele Alake and the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council to account for President Bola Tinubu’s performance in office, instead of fixating on Peter Obi’s claim that he won the 2023 presidential election.
In a statement by its spokesperson, Idris Zekeri Jnr, the Obi Media Office said Nigerians are more interested in evaluating the substance of Tinubu’s mandate than in political exchanges over the 2023 polls.
“As Alake focuses on disputing Obi’s claim, millions of Nigerians are evaluating the substance of the mandate President Tinubu has assumed,” the statement said.
The group queried the impact of the administration on ordinary Nigerians, citing “escalating economic hardship, higher living costs, worsening poverty, and intensifying insecurity under a government marked by grandiosity and corruption.”
It asked: “What significance does an electoral victory have if it fails to bring meaningful improvements to the lives of the people?”
According to POMR, winning an election confers responsibility to govern effectively, noting that leadership should be judged by its ability to translate political authority into concrete outcomes, not by the ability to win or defend an election in court.
The media office acknowledged that the courts affirmed the official result of the 2023 presidential election, but argued that legal victory does not equal successful governance nor does it place an administration beyond accountability.
It called on Alake to explain the administration’s record.
“Where is the relief Nigerians were promised? Where is the economic prosperity? Where are the security, affordability, and renewed hope that responsible leadership should provide?” it queried.
POMR said Nigerians have little interest in perpetual political disputes while purchasing power declines and survival becomes more difficult.
“Dele Alake should respond to the question Nigerians are asking: What has Tinubu done with his ‘electoral victory’, if not oversee conditions that many citizens experience as one hardship after another?”
The statement added that victory should be measured not by celebrations at the polls but by what citizens experience in their homes, workplaces, farms and communities.
“Nigeria deserves a government that produces results, not one whose defenders are more focused on discrediting the opposition than accounting for the nation’s condition,” it said.