[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.]  Peter Obi [@PeterObi](/creator/twitter/PeterObi) on x 5.4M followers Created: 2025-07-02 12:19:12 UTC I have consistently maintained that our underdevelopment is due to Leadership failure. It is heartbreaking that our President, who is the leader of a country with the highest number of out of school children in the world and with the students in the capital of his own nation Abuja presently not attending schools, would travel to St. Lucia and offer scholarships to children there, while his own country’s education system is in ruins, and even currently his nation’s capital, the Federal Capital Territory, the supposed seat of governance, have public schools shut down and closed for months. This is not leadership, it is negligence at its peak. It is an act of betrayal against the Nigerian child. Nigeria has approximately XX million children out of school, according to UNICEF, the highest number globally, with a literacy rate of under XX% far below the global average of 87%. Similarly, the life expectancy stands at a mere XX years, out of the global average measurement of above XX years, one of the lowest in the world. On Human Development Index (HDI), which is the most critical measure of development, Nigeria is ranked in the "Low Category" at XXX out of XXX countries measured, while St. Lucia, a Caribbean nation, has a literacy rate of over XX% which is above the global average of 87%. In life expectancy of more than XX years, which is within the global average. On HDI which Nigeria is in the Low category, they air in the "High Category" So tell me, what sense does it make that a president of a country with such terrible and dire statistics would travel to a country with better indexes of development especially in education and still offer them scholarships funded by Nigerian taxpayers when Nigeria children are largely out of school and the teachers not yet paid for months? Mr. President, by offering St Lucia students a scholarship, shows he knows how important education is, while depriving Nigerian students of the same access to education. We must, as a nation, reject these continued normalisations of misplaced priorities and build a better nation for us and our children. A New Nigeria is POssible. -PO XXXXXXX engagements  [Post Link](https://x.com/PeterObi/status/1940384759961583852)
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Peter Obi @PeterObi on x 5.4M followers
Created: 2025-07-02 12:19:12 UTC
I have consistently maintained that our underdevelopment is due to Leadership failure.
It is heartbreaking that our President, who is the leader of a country with the highest number of out of school children in the world and with the students in the capital of his own nation Abuja presently not attending schools, would travel to St. Lucia and offer scholarships to children there, while his own country’s education system is in ruins, and even currently his nation’s capital, the Federal Capital Territory, the supposed seat of governance, have public schools shut down and closed for months.
This is not leadership, it is negligence at its peak. It is an act of betrayal against the Nigerian child.
Nigeria has approximately XX million children out of school, according to UNICEF, the highest number globally, with a literacy rate of under XX% far below the global average of 87%. Similarly, the life expectancy stands at a mere XX years, out of the global average measurement of above XX years, one of the lowest in the world.
On Human Development Index (HDI), which is the most critical measure of development, Nigeria is ranked in the "Low Category" at XXX out of XXX countries measured, while St. Lucia, a Caribbean nation, has a literacy rate of over XX% which is above the global average of 87%.
In life expectancy of more than XX years, which is within the global average.
On HDI which Nigeria is in the Low category, they air in the "High Category"
So tell me, what sense does it make that a president of a country with such terrible and dire statistics would travel to a country with better indexes of development especially in education and still offer them scholarships funded by Nigerian taxpayers when Nigeria children are largely out of school and the teachers not yet paid for months?
Mr. President, by offering St Lucia students a scholarship, shows he knows how important education is, while depriving Nigerian students of the same access to education.
We must, as a nation, reject these continued normalisations of misplaced priorities and build a better nation for us and our children.
A New Nigeria is POssible. -PO
XXXXXXX engagements
