Presidential aide, Segun Dada urges prayers for Peter Obi over criticism of First Lady’s birthday request

Presidential aide, Segun Dada, has called on Nigerians to pray for former Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, following his recent criticism of First Lady Remi Tinubu’s birthday request.

The First Lady, who turned 65 on Sunday, September 21, had asked Nigerians to support the National Library Project as her birthday gift. The initiative was intended as a philanthropic appeal to strengthen educational infrastructure.

Reacting, Obi acknowledged that Mrs. Tinubu’s gesture appeared noble and selfless on the surface, but he argued that the request also exposed deeper governance failures.

‘’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.