Breaking: Peter Obi deletes tweet giving false figures

The vice-presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Peter Obi, caught red-handed for reeling out fake and outlandish figures on Friday night  went further low early Saturday: he deleted one of the misleading tweets.

Obi had claimed during the live TV debate on Friday in Abuja that Nigeria attracted $41 billion Foreign Direct Investment in its economy in 2015 and that the value of the FDI fell to to $12.5 billion under the Buhari administration, to justify why Buhari must leave looters alone and mind the economy.

Obi, who told many lies during the debate, was fact-checked and his figure for 2015 was found to be wide off the mark.

Apparently embarrassed, he deleted the tweet and replaced it with another.

Here were his original tweet and the correction he got:

Obi’s new tweet skirted 2015 and now quoted a figure for 2014.

In 2014, we generated…