Presidency Accuses Obi Of ‘Reckless Lies’ Over Sports Funding

……Tackles Melaye Over NELFUND Claim

The Presidency has accused the Nigeria Democratic Congress ( NDC) presidential candidate ,Peter Obi, of making what it described as “reckless lies” over sports funding.

Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, made the allegation in a post on his X handle while reacting to Obi’s comments on the need for the Federal Government to invest in sports.

Onanuga said Obi’s sports record as governor was “well documented in the archives.”

“Headlines don’t lie like Peter Obi lies, recklessly. His poor sports record as governor is well documented in the archives,” he wrote.

He further alleged that Obi, despite speaking about the need for increased Federal Government investment in sports, treated Anambra sportsmen and women, including physically challenged athletes, “shabbily” during his eight years as governor.

“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,” Onanuga said.

In another post, the presidential aide also criticised former Senator Dino Melaye over comments concerning the Nigeria Education Loan Fund (NELFUND).

Onanuga shared a statement by the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) president, describing it as a “stinging rebuke” of Melaye over his claim that NELFUND provides students only N20,000 per year.

“NANS President delivers a stinging rebuke to Dino Melaye over his brazen lie that NELFUND gives students only N20,000 per year,” Onanuga wrote.