The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that the Candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 presidential election, Peter Obi
Obi who bequeathed a sordid legacy of economic stagnation, infrastructural decay, ecological disaster, and religious polarisation when he governed Anambra State couldn’t have done better than President Bola Tinubu.
TheHintsNews reports that Obi while featuring on ARISE TV on Tuesday accused Tinubu’s administration of being ineffective in implementing economic policies.
But the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Felix Morka in a statement issued Wednesday said it was painful to watch Obi as he laboured in vain to cobble together any sensible critical economic argument in the face of a stark and undeniable record of progress of the administration’s economic reforms.
He noted that even Obi’s trademark opportunistic sensationalisation of transient difficulties that Nigerians have endured in patriotic support of the President’s bold and transformative economic plan availed no respite, as he floundered on national television, framing himself as a portrait of frustration and political desperation.
Morka said Obi’s claim that he would have done better as president must be a symptom of a protracted bout of election failure-induced hangover from which he has not awakened to the reality that he is not the president.
The spokesperson explained that opposition politics is not about denying the administration’s many successes, but about critiquing what might be wrong but affirming what is right.
He added: “It is not about wholesale condemnation that is only intended to mislead and score cheap political gains. The steady progress of the Tinubu-administration across sectors is undeniable and evident for all Nigerians to see.
“It is hysterical that Mr Obi, who was governor of a failed and forgotten administration in Anambra state of only 21 local government areas, would so brazenly boast of his capacity to govern Africa’s largest democracy.
“Obi bequeathed a sordid legacy of economic stagnation, infrastructural decay, ecological disaster, and religious polarization.”
Morka said both as former Governor of Lagos state and now as President, Tinubu is a dogged achiever, bold and unwavering in tackling and transforming difficult challenges into opportunities.
He noted that as he did for Lagos, Tinubu is now doing for Nigeria with the economy rebounding steadily, posting productivity-enhanced trade surpluses in successive quarters, with a 3.6 per cent economic growth forecasted for the current fiscal year; with a fast expanding foreign reserve; among others.
Morka stressed that the administration also has posted in its success column the cleared $7 billion forex backlog, and Ways and Means debt of over $30 billion; with reduced debt servicing ratio from 98 per cent to about 64 per cent; with 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.
