APC Chides Obi Over 2023 Poll, Challenges Him On Anambra Liabilities

The All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council has criticised the Nigerian Democratic Congress (NDC) presidential candidate, Peter Obi, over his declare that he received the 2023 presidential election.

This is whilst they challenged him to honour an earlier pledge to withdraw from the 2027 race if liabilities had been established in opposition to his administration in Anambra State.

The council’s spokesman, Dele Alake, in a press release yesterday, described Obi’s election declare as a “troubling display of delusion,” accusing the previous Anambra State governor of disregarding details and proof.

Alake’s response adopted Obi’s latest interview with the BBC, throughout which he reportedly maintained that he received the 2023 presidential election regardless of acknowledging that he had no proof to help the declare.

“I don’t like going back to the past. I won the last election. There’s no evidence, but I won the election. Everything is not based on evidence,” Obi was quoted as saying.

Faulting the remarks, Alake stated it was troubling for a presidential aspirant to insist that he received an election whereas admitting that he lacked proof to substantiate the declare.

He argued that public figures, significantly these in search of the presidency, ought to help their assertions with verifiable details fairly than make unsubstantiated claims.

The APC spokesman maintained that President Bola Tinubu received the 2023 presidential election, noting that the Independent National Electoral Commission declared him the winner and that the election tribunal and the Supreme Court upheld the result.

Alake additionally accused Obi of persistently disputing the election end result regardless of the official outcomes and judicial selections.

Beyond the controversy surrounding the 2023 election, the APC marketing campaign council challenged Obi to honour what it described as his earlier pledge to exit the 2027 presidential race if it was established that his administration left liabilities in Anambra State.

“We again call on Peter Obi to act honourably and honour his earlier pledge to exit the 2027 presidential race if it is proven that his administration left behind liabilities in Anambra State—a fact now clearly established by the state’s financial records,” Alake stated.

The assertion, nevertheless, didn’t present particulars of the particular liabilities or determine the monetary information on which the council primarily based its assertion.

Alake additionally defended Tinubu’s administration, saying it had pursued reforms geared toward stabilising the financial system, increasing infrastructure, supporting companies and younger individuals, enhancing schooling and healthcare, and creating job alternatives.