President Bola Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, has lambasted the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) presidential candidate, Peter Obi, over his comments on Tinubu’s absence from the 81st United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York.

Onanuga in a post on X, wrote:

“Two other significant African leaders were not in New York for the UNGA: South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa and Egypt’s Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. Ramaphosa booked himself off public engagements. Johannesburg and Pretoria didn’t show any strong reaction to Ramaphosa not attending the UNGA.

“Egypt did not explode, and Sisi did not go to New York. The Nigerian President said he would take his yearly break and asked his capable and trustworthy Vice President to attend to official duties in his place.”

“Yet Peter Obi acts as though he doesn’t know where President Tinubu is and asks the same silly question that his supporters are asking on X.”