Anambra ex-gov still struggling with 2023 defeat, says Presidency
The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has slammed the Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections, Peter Obi over his scathing remarks on the performance of the President Bola Tinubu administration.
APC National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, in a statement, yesterday, in Abuja wondered why Obi thought he would have done better than Tinubu in implementing his economic policy reforms.
Also, Special Adviser to the President on Policy Communication, Daniel Bwala, stated that Obi had yet to recover from the “painful defeat” he suffered in the last general election.
The ruling party remarked that it was painful to watch Obi labouring in vain to cobble together any sensible critical economic argument in the face of stark and undeniable record of progress of the Tinubu administration’s economic reforms.
It likened Obi to an unlicensed back seat driver that thinks himself to be a race car driver, who needs to tame his bloated and deluded imagination.
Insisting that Obi’s pedigree and track record in public service is nowhere near that of Tinubu since the return to democratic rule in the country, APC contended that whereas global institutions and experts were applauding the unfolding silent economic revolution led by Tinubu, Obi and other members of the opposition continue to deny the President’s superlative and incomparable near mid-term successes and achievements.
It stressed that Tinubu remains focused on securing good governance and improved economic conditions for all Nigerians.
“Opposition politics is not about denying the administration’s many successes; it is about critiquing what may be wrong and affirming what is right. It is not about wholesale condemnation that is only intended to mislead and score cheap political gains.
The party pointed out that the administration also posted in its success column the cleared $7 billion forex backlog and Ways and Means debt of over $30 billion; reduced debt serving ratio from 98 per cent to about 64 per cent; increased oil production in excess of 1.8 mbpd, surpassing the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) quota of 1.5mbpd for the first time in many years; a repositioned stock exchange market that is now one of the most profitable in the world; a vastly expanding agricultural, mine and steel, manufacturing, creative and several other sub-sectors of the economy, in a push to increase the non-oil contribution to Gross Domestic Product (GDP); and with the Chatham House only recently adjudging the nation’s economy as the most competitive it has been in 25 years.
BWALA, in a post on his X page, yesterday, said Obi’s Tuesday interview on Arise TV lacked facts and logical analyses.
“As I listened to Obi struggling to play the opposition, I can’t help but shudder at his abysmal delivery. He was speaking devoid of facts, logical analysis and almost sounded like a tinkling cymbal or a sounding brass,” he wrote.
The Presidential spokesman further claimed that Nigeria “dodged a bullet” by not electing Obi as president, suggesting that the former Anambra Governor is now “deserted in the banana republic of fantasy.
Culled from The Guardian
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