Today’s Headlines: Debt worse than leprosy, OBJ replies Tinubu, Presidency: It’s time you give up ambition – NDC reacts as Atiku’s son backs Tinubu.

Debt worse than leprosy, Obasanjo replies Tinubu.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has faulted President Bola Tinubu’s position that borrowing is not leprosy, declaring that the country’s mounting debt is worse than the disease because its consequences extend to generations yet unborn.

Obasanjo, who secured the landmark $30bn Paris Club debt relief for Nigeria during his administration between 1999 and 2007, said that while leprosy affects an individual, excessive borrowing endangered the future of entire generations.

He spoke on Friday at the 3rd Ajibosin Annual Symposium, themed “Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Solve Grassroots Problems and Accelerate National Development”, held at the amphitheatre of the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library in Abeokuta.

Presidency: It’s time you give up ambition – NDC reacts as Atiku’s son backs Tinubu.

The Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, Director of New Media and Strategic Communications, Theo Abu Agada, has said it’s time for the African Democratic Congress, ADC, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar to give up his ambition.

Agada was reacting to Atiku’s son, Abba’s decision to back President Bola Tinubu’s reelection bid in 2027.

Obi: Tinubu Has Borrowed Nearly $100bn With Nothing To Show.

Presidential Candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), Peter Obi, has accused President Bola Ahmed Tinubu of borrowing nearly $100 billion without being able to give account for it.

Speaking in Yenagoa, Bayelsa state, during the homecoming of the National leader of the party, Senator Seriake Dickson, and the commissioning of the party secretariat, on Friday, Obi urged Nigerians to change the All Progressives Congress (APC) government.

I don’t feel sorry for you, join us fight APC – Isaac Fayose tells Sowore after attack.

Political commentator, Isaac Fayose has urged the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, to join forces with other opposition parties to unseat the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2027.

Fayose made the call while reacting to the alleged attack on Sowore and members of his campaign team in Ekiti State on Friday.

He said he was not sympathetic to Sowore over the incident, citing the AAC candidate’s frequent attacks on the presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC).

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