By Kingston Magare
The All-Progressives Congress (APC) said Peter Obi the Labour Party presidential candidate in the 2023 election is a prophet of doom after his scathing New Year message scored President Bola Tinubu low.
During a media chat on Thursday, Obi said Nigeria was lagging behind in economic growth with worsening inflation, unemployment and insecurity. Obi submitted that Nigeria has plummeted from being the largest economy to being the fourth in Africa.
But speaking in a statement APC national publicity secretary Felix Morka, noted that Obi is Nigeria’s leading doomsayer, who cannot see the reforms of President Tinubu having effect on the nation’s economy.
“Obi’s New Year message, in which he claimed that the political, economic and security situation of our dear country is worsening daily, is misleading and appears intended to score cheap political points. This claim, 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,” said the APC statement signed by Morka.
“Despite these and other initial beneficial outcomes of ongoing unprecedented reforms, the administration is doubling its effort to ensuring that the reforms deliver their fullest benefits for the sustainable growth and transformation of our country.
“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.
“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.”
