Former presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has questioned the decision by the Bariga Local Council Development Area to rename the popular Charly Boy Bus Stop as Olamide Baddo Bus Stop.

Obi, during an interaction with Charly Boy, as captured in a viral video, said the decision taken by the Bariga LCDA was uncalled for, as there are pressing issues to deal with in the country.

“I don’t have a problem with such mundane things,” Obi said. “To me, it is totally irrelevant when you have millions of people who don’t know where their next meal will come from.

“Whether they change it to A or B…. As governor, I refused to let streets, buildings, or anything be named after me. I built a facility in the hospital, the proprietor said it should be named after me or my mother, but I said no.”

The former Anambra State governor added that he was not surprised that his critics complained that he never executed any project while in office, saying that his decision was triggered by his love for accountability and the need to preserve public funds.

“That’s why people are saying that I didn’t do much publicity when I was governor, that I would have put my name on all the streets and every facility that I built,” Obi said.

“I didn’t even commission anything. That’s why people are saying that I didn’t do this, I didn’t do that. For me, whatever I did was with public money, so I didn’t see the relevance of putting my name on them.”

Former presidential aide Reno Omokri slammed Obi for allegedly remaining silent when the Anambra State Government published a job advertisement on Thursday, November 14, 2023, advising non-indigenes not to apply.

Omokri hinted that the same Obi deemed it fit to name one Ifeanyi Ezeagu as coordinator of his Presidential campaign in Sokoto. At the same time, John Ezeigbe was also named as the coordinator for Lagos State.

“My question to Peter Obi is this. Was it also mundane when he, Peter Obi, threatened to sack non-indigenes from the Anambra State Civil Service,” he queried.