‘My statistics now must be accurate’, Peter Obi addresses allegations of lying (Video)
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has expressed his commitment to quoting statistics from only credible sources going forward.
The politician has come under heavy criticism from opponents who accused him of quoting unreliable and misleading statistics in order to canvass his points of view.
Speaking on the sidelines of the ongoing Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) conference at the Eko Hotel and Suites on Monday, Obi told a group of lawyers who were with him in a lounge after his session that he now quotes figures released by the Nigeria Bureau of Statistics (NBS).
He argued that this is a credible warehouse of statistics about Nigeria.
He faulted the figures quoted by a fellow speaker at the session, noting that the figures he was quoting were not the official figures as released by the NBS.
Obi brought out his phone and searched for the relevant information.
He said: “For example, that NBA question on expenditure is here. (Reading) Actual earning, N1,630 tr. which was what I was quoting.
“He (the unnamed fellow speaker) has to quote NBS, not anyone else. If it was me that spoke that thing now, it would be everywhere.
“So, my figures now must be accurate. It must be what anybody can go and verify immediately.”
Listen to him below.
“I am careful where I get my stats from. It has to be NBS”, Peter Obi shows a lawyer at the NBA conference yesterday in Eko Hotel, Lagos State, where he gets his stats about Nigeria from.
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