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APC: Obi hellbent on inciting Nigerians against Tinubu — he’s a doomsayer

Felix Morka, APC spokesperson Felix Morka, APC spokesperson
Felix Morka, APC spokesperson

The All Progressives Congress (APC) says Peter Obi‘s New Year message is “misleading and an attempt to score cheap political points”.

Obi was presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 elections.

In his New Year message to Nigerians, Obi criticised President Bola Tinubu, while expressing grave concerns over institutional corruption, mismanagement, poverty, hardship, and an escalating debt profile.

The former governor of Anambra stated that corruption has been deeply entrenched in government and nepotism has become the norm on Tinubu’s watch.

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He also demanded “vigorous, positive actions” from the administration to bring succour to Nigerians.

However, in a counter-statement on Thursday, Felix Morka, APC spokesperson, said Obi’s assessment was at variance with all indicators that showed that the nation’s economy is rebounding across all sectors.

Morka accused Obi and members of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of making relentless attempts to incite public outrage against the Tinubu administration.

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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,” the statement reads.

“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.

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“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 by 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 added that Tinubu’s goal is to reduce inflation from 34 percent to 15 percent in 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.

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