According to a video on Symfoni Tv on Monday November 9, 2026, Professor Chris Mustafa Nwaokobia Jr., Director of Media and Publicity for the Prince Adewole Adebayo Presidential Campaign and National Coordinator of Movement Adebayo for President, has said no economy in the world comes out of poverty growing at 4.2 per cent, and someone is lying to Nigerians about the state of the economy.
Nwaokobia, who was speaking on Nigeria Unfiltered, a Symfoni podcast hosted by Victor Iroele, said the government keeps celebrating macroeconomic gains on paper while small businesses and manufacturing continue to collapse at the micro level.
He warned that until these issues are addressed, what happened in America will happen in Nigeria, because Nigerians will resist the party of liars and perfidy through their votes.
“And until these issues are addressed, what happened in America will happen here in January,” Nwaokobia said.
“Nigerians would resist the party of liars and perfidy through their votes,” he stated.
He said INEC must understand that, because the reason for the foul rhetoric on the socio-political space is that people do not trust INEC.
“And INEC must understand that, because the reason there’s their foul rhetoric on our socio-political space,” he said.
“And the reason people are saying, if you rig, we’ll rig you out, or if you rig, be ready to be killed, is because people do not trust INEC,” Nwaokobia added.
He said he hopes George Amapita and his team understands the urgency of now, because Nigerians are demanding real change, not statistics.
“And I hope George Amapita and his team understands the urgency of now,” he said.
He said all over the world, the answer to hunger is not good words, but food, and the answer to poverty, disease, and despondency is more money with value in the people’s pocket and provision by government.
“All over the world, Victor, like I said, the answer to hunger is not good words, it’s food,” Nwaokobia said.
“All over the world, Victor, like I said, the answer to poverty, disease, and despondency is more money with value in the people’s pocket and provision by government,” he stated.
He said save and except that is done, the rightful recourse of a people is to vote out the failure, and that is what Nigerians will do.
“Save and except that is done, the rightful recourse of a people is to vote out the failure,” he said.
“And that’s what Nigerians will do, no matter what the APC does, even if they have all the states under APC governance,” Nwaokobia added.
He said for as long as there is hunger, disease, and despondency, and for as long as there is want in the country, people will vote the government out.
“For as long as there’s hunger, disease, and despondency, for as long as there’s want in the country, people will vote them out,” he declared.
Nwaokobia said the economy cannot grow on paper alone while the manufacturing sector, which is the engine room of growth everywhere in the world, remains weak in Nigeria.
He said an economy that is truly turning around must grow with double-digit growth, create businesses at the lowest rung, and lift small-scale businesses, as seen in India, Singapore, and across the Asian Tigers.
He said the government’s claim of 4.2 or 4.3 or 4.4 percent growth cannot take any nation out of poverty, and Nigerians know the difference between real growth and propaganda.
Nwaokobia maintained that Nigerians are no longer deceived by GDP figures that do not reflect in their pockets, in their shops, or in their factories.
He said the people want jobs, affordable food, affordable fuel, and businesses that work, not speeches about macroeconomic gains.
He warned that any government that continues to tell the people the economy is growing while they are getting poorer will face the same judgment Americans gave to the Republican Party in the midterm elections.
Nwaokobia said the time has come for leaders to be truthful about the economy and to build it from the bottom up, starting with small businesses, manufacturing, and the welfare of ordinary Nigerians.
SOURCE: Boss105
