“Prayers up for Mr Obi. This is becoming serious” – presidential aide, Dada Segun, knocks Peter Obi for questioning Remi Tinubu’s birthday request

Presidential aide, Segun Dada, has asked Nigerians to pray for Peter Obi. His call came while reacting to the statement Obi put out faulting first lady, Remi Tinubu’s birthday request. The first lady turned 65 on Sunday, September 21 and as her birthday gift, she appealed to Nigerians to donate to the National Library Project.

Obi noted that on the surface,  Mrs Tinubu’s request is noble and selfless but beneath it lies an indictment of our nation.

‘’What kind of country must beg for charity to build the very temple of knowledge? What kind of leaders waste trillions on luxury and vanity, while the National Library – our intellectual furnace – remains abandoned in the capital? Serious nations treat libraries as sacred; but here we reduce them to afterthoughts, begging bowls, or birthday tokens.”he wrote

Reacting to Obi’s comment, Dada via his X handle insinuated that something is wrong with Obi for making such comments and called for prayers for the former Presidential candidate.