APC accuses Peter Obi of misleading Nigerians for cheap political gains

The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the opposition Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 poll of misleading Nigerians to score cheap political gains.

APC’s national publicity secretary, Mr. Felix Morka, in a statement, described Obi’s New Year message, in which he claimed that the political, economic, and security situation of the country is worsening daily as not only mischievous but misleading.

APC noted that the claim coming at a time when all indicators show that our country is rebounding in significant measure across all sectors, casts Obi, squarely, as Nigeria’s leading doomsayer.

APC insisted that the economy under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration has shown steady progress – a massive balance of trade surpluses; trillions in stock market wealth creation; and a surge in foreign direct investments as a result of increased confidence in the economy.

APC pointed at enhanced foreign reserve; a significant decline in debt servicing ratio from 90 percent to about 64 percent; higher incomes for farmers; massive increase in federal allocation to states and local governments; deliberate and patriotic efforts to plug leakeages and shore up the nation’s revenue base; restart of moribund Port-Harcourt and Warri refineries; remarkable improvement in oil production and export of petroleum products; the decimation of terrorist leaders and improvement in the security situation, and numerous other measures to meet the $1trillion economy target of this administration to buttress its assertion.

He added that despite these and other initial beneficial outcomes of ongoing unprecedented reforms, the Tinubu-led administration is doubling its effort to ensure that the reforms deliver their fullest benefits for the sustainable growth and transformation of our country.

APC contended that the vigour in the administration’s war on corruption, evidenced by ongoing investigations and trial of well-heeled Nigerians, Obi’s pontification on the urgent need to tame corruption is a clear case of carrying coal to Newcastle.

“It is a thing of irony that Peter Obi, who now arrogates to himself to be omniscient and philosopher’s stone, when it comes to our nation’s challenges, left no record of significant achievement, let alone transformation of any kind, in his eight-year tenure as Governor of Anambra State,” he said.

“Like his co-travellers in the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Obi’s obsessive pessimism and endless but futile effort to incite public outrage against the administration is borne out of their realization that President Tinubu is unwittingly cementing their ultimate political irrelevance by his visionary and full-throttle reform and transformation of the fundamental pillars of our national life.”

APC added that under the banner of the Renewed Hope Agenda, President Tinubu is dutifully turning our nation’s fortunes around adding he deserves the support and patience of Nigerians to consolidate on the deep economic foundation he has laid and deliver a vibrant, prosperous new Nigeria for the good of all.

APC spokesman urged Nigerians to remain confident of better days ahead.