Osita Chidoka, a former Aviation Minister, has suggested that if the Peoples Democratic Party's presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, and Labour Party's Peter Obi had won the 2023 election, they would have encountered comparable challenges to what Bola Tinubu is currently experiencing.

Chidoka made this assertion, attributing it to the belief that the previous President, Muhammadu Buhari, had significantly harmed Nigeria's economy over his eight-year tenure.

The PDP chieftain said: “The eight years of Buhari were a destroying eight years. The APC-led Buhari govt destroyed value in a significant and unprecedented manner. Now to cure that damage, there is no switchboard you can just light and change everything overnight."

“That government actually acquired 23 trillion in Ways and Means and borrowed money in dollars, that has significantly hindered the government’s ability to have foreign exchange because you need to service those debt in dollars.

“So, any government that comes in would have faced significant headwinds whether it was Atiku, Obi or Sowore.

“The difference that the President is suffering is not economics, Nigeria was going barely up. We were going to pay for the foreign exchange they were manipulating and selling to themselves at N400, this president has said we should pay the price.

“Tinubu’s challenge is that he lacks political consensus in Nigeria in making these tough decisions, people who voted for him are a minority in Nigeria, 63 percent of the voters did not vote for him, so he needs to woo them.”