Peter Obi Bent On Inciting Nigerians Against Tinubu – APC

The All Progressives Congress (APC) says Peter Obi’s New Year address demonstrates that he is a “doomsayer” who is aiming to “turn Nigerians against President Tinubu.”

In his New Year greeting to Nigerians, Obi, the Labour Party’s presidential candidate in the 2023 general election, criticized President Bola Tinubu while also voicing significant worries about institutional corruption, mismanagement, poverty, suffering, and an increasing debt profile. Obi, a former governor of Anambra state, claimed that corruption has become firmly ingrained in government, that nepotism has become the standard under Tinubu’s leadership.

However, in a counter-statement on Thursday, January 2, the ruling party’s spokesperson, Felix Morka, claimed Obi’s judgment contradicted all data indicating that the nation’s economy is recovering across all sectors. He accused Obi and others of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of repeatedly attempting to provoke public discontent against the Tinubu administration.

The APC accused Obi of portraying himself as “a leading doomsayer, omniscient and philosopher’s stone” while failing to deliver “meaningful achievements during his eight-year tenure as governor in Anambra state”.

“In reality, 18 months later, the economy, under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration has shown a steady record of progress.

“Despite these and other initial beneficial outcomes of ongoing reforms, the administration is doubling its effort to ensure their fullest benefits for the transformation of our country.

“It is a thing of irony that 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.

“Like his co-travellers in the PDP, Obi’s obsessive pessimism and endless but futile effort to incite public outrage against the administration is borne out of the realization that Tinubu is unwittingly cementing their political irrelevance through his visionary and full-throttle reform.

“Under the banner of the Renewed Hope Agenda, President Tinubu is dutifully turning our nation’s fortunes around. We urge Nigerians to remain confident of better days ahead.”

The ruling party also stated that Tinubu’s goal is to lower inflation from 34 percent to 15 percent by 2025.

“With 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,” the party added.