Fact Checking Obi and Atiku, By Sam Omatseye

President Bola Tinubu threw some salvos at the weekend at Peter Obi and Atiku. He said Atiku built his university in Adamawa when he was vice president. Atiku fought back, asserting that he commenced it in 1993. The Adamawa man was being clever by half. Records show that he did the real work when he became vice president and he established it between 1999 and 2003, when he was vice president.

So, that was the same period he set up a demolition squad on Nigeria’s vitals. He took our parastatals one after the other and auctioned them. He sold agencies worth billions of dollars for a few million dollars. He profited from them, didn’t he? He thought he knew how to dodge the truth. No, he did not.

The president was right. Peter Obi also built his supermarket in Abuja when he was governor. Records cannot lie.

The president also said Obi ran away from gullies and environmental problems in Anambra State. Obi’s chorus said he paid counterpart funding. That may be right. They showed videos of a few places he worked on in the state. No dispute.

Those were tokens to give the impression he was doing something. Most of the state was drowned in gullies and pains. Most of the state, including 11 local government areas.

Hence he had the N2.1 billion grant. If the president said, he ran away from the problem, President Tinubu forgot to say what he ran away with. That is, the N2.1 billion Anambra State money that some ‘python’ had devoured in the First Bank account. He still has the boldness to ask for the government to account for subsidy money when he is not faithful in a little N2.1 billion in his care.

That matter will not go away. A look at his budget shows that he always lined up areas that he would save from environmental disasters. But the areas never saw relief. One of such areas was redeemed by the boom of Anambra orchestra, Governor Chukwuma Soludo, and it was where the famous pastor known as Indabiski located his church. Facts are facts.