Niger State Governor Mohammed Umar Bago  has reportedly visited the Presidential Villa to beg  President Bola Tinubu on his knees hours   after his  publicly supporting Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of LP who slammed the  Tinubu’s government for receiving food aide from war torn Ukraine.


Bago belongs to  the All Progressives Congress [APC]  and at a public gathering, he aligned and praised  Peter Obi, for criticising Nigeria for receiving donations of grains from war-torn Ukraine. Obi also urged Tinubu's administration to make Nigeria productive.



Although, it could not be confirmed what exactly transpired,  but watchers of  politics suggests that  Bago’s support for Obi’s criticism of the  Tinubu administration may not have been received kindly by the APC government.


Dailyledger.com.ng reports that Bago had publicly praised Peter Obi, hailing him as ‘my boss’ at the LEADERSHIP 2023 Conference and Awards which held on March 5, 2024, at the Transcorp Hilton Hotels, Abuja.


 “My boss, you are very right on what you’ve said. We have no reason to be poor. People may not like you, but they must hear you. What you say is the gospel truth.


“It is time we tell [sic]  ourselves the basic truth. We need to feed ourselves. It is a shame for people [sic] like Ukraine in war to be giving us food.


“Nigeria needs to be productive. You cannot be out of poverty unless you start to produce. I’m not an advocate of handouts and palliative. I don’t believe in it.” he reportedly said at the occasion.