Temitope Ajayi, Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to President Bola Tinubu, compared Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s 2023 presidential candidate, to former US President and Republican candidate for the US 2024 election, Donald Trump.
Ajayi made the comparison in a post on X on Wednesday, following the US presidential debate between Trump and Democratic candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris.
“Peter Obi is the Nigerian version of Donald Trump. Like Obi, Trump will use the most negative epithets imaginable to describe a country he wants to lead again just to make a point and rile up his base,” he wrote.
During the discussion, Harris and Trump disagreed on a variety of subjects, including abortion rights and immigration, as both candidates sought to convince voters in a closely contested race.
Ajayi added, “Kamala Harris prosecuted Trump very well in their first face-to-face debate yesterday night. Kamala convincingly won the debate and left no one in doubt about his capacity.
“Vice President Harris knew Trump’s weakness and set traps for him. Trump fell for her baits. Both candidates have been fact-checked on their claims in the debate. While Harris was reported to have made just one incorrect claim, Trump made 33 false claims in the same 90-minute debate.”
According to media reports, Trump repeatedly responded to Harris’ provocations, repeating conspiracy theories and bogus assertions concerning the 2020 presidential election and immigration.
The former president was continuously fact-checked by debate moderators, but Trump simply repeated his allegations, such as alleging that immigrants are eating US residents’ dogs and pets.
“In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs—the people that came in—they’re eating the cats; they’re eating the pets of the people that live there. And this is what’s happening in our country,” Trump said, contradicting the Springfield city manager, who said such accusations had no basis in fact.
