President Bola Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, has accused NDC presidential candidate Peter Obi of lying recklessly over his comments on Federal Government investment in sports.
Onanuga made the accusation in a post on X while reacting to Obi’s call for increased Federal Government investment in the sports sector.
“Headlines don’t lie like Peter Obi lies, recklessly,” Onanuga wrote.
He also criticised Obi’s record on sports during his eight years as governor of Anambra State, alleging that the state’s sportsmen and women were poorly treated.
“His poor sports record as governor is well documented in the archives,” he said.
Onanuga further alleged that physically challenged sportsmen and women in Anambra were also treated “shabbily” during Obi’s tenure.
He questioned Obi’s call for greater Federal Government investment in sports, citing what he described as the former governor’s record in Anambra.
“Today, he talks, very glibly, of course, about the need for the FG to invest in sport, when, as governor for 8 years, he treated Anambra sportsmen and women and even, unconscionably, the physically challenged sportsmen and women shabbily,” he wrote.