Bayo Onanuga, director of media & publicity for the
Tinubu-Shettima presidential campaign council, says Peter Obi’s manifesto is a
poor imitation of President Muhammadu Buhari’s achievements.
On December 5, Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the
Labour Party, released his 72-page manifesto titled ‘It’s POssible: Our Pact
with Nigerians’.
The manifesto listed seven priority areas that his
administration would concentrate on if elected president, including the
introduction of hourly minimum wage and health insurance for 133 million
Nigerians.
Reacting in a statement issued on Tuesday, Onanuga said the
policy document is filled with “fallacies and false statistics”, adding that
Obi has no capacity to deliver his promises.
“By now, many of the
gullible followers must have been utterly disappointed that their man didn’t
offer them anything to be proud of after all the blusters and the initial
leakage of the document, which contains, strangely, 15 pages of the
biographical sketches of Obi and his running mate, Datti Baba-Ahmed,” he said.
“Mr Peter Obi’s document contains no grand policy
initiatives and options to excite right-thinking Nigerians. It was silent about
how Obi wants to achieve his high falutin objectives. Instead, it will set
alarm bells ringing in the south-south and North East as Obi promises to
‘engineer the transition of Nigeria from a fossil fuel dependency to climate
and eco-friendly energy use”.
“As expected, Obi’s document contains fallacies and false
statistics. Obi claimed China moved 740 million people out of poverty. He
understated the achievement and was silent about the period it took the Chinese
Communist party to achieve this. China moved close to 800 million people out of
poverty and it was achieved in 40 years. This makes the present APC
government’s plan to move 100 million Nigerians out of poverty in 10 years,
more realistic than Obi’s rhetoric tends to suggest.
“One of the fallacies
contained in the document, which Obi has
often repeated to his followers, is that
Nigeria is a failed state. We wonder whether the Labour Party candidate
sometimes bothers to check the meaning of a failed state and whether the
country he dreams to govern falls into the mould of Yemen or Somalia, where
institutions of government have lost total control of their societies.
“Another fallacy is Obi’s claim that Nigeria recorded modest
gains between 1999-2015, the PDP years, even when all verifiable evidence
points to the contrary. The Labour Party candidate simplistically diagnosed
Nigeria’s problem as ‘elite capture’, which is self-indicting as he and his
running mate, who he styled ‘new breed’ are members.
“He claims incompetent leadership has divided the nation,
playing up religious and ethnic sentiments. Another self-indictment as the
hallmark of his campaign has been to jump from one church to the other,
positioning himself as a ‘Christian candidate’ and inciting the church against
the current APC government.
“In fact, the document Mr Obi released is a poor imitation
and regurgitation of what the current APC-led administration of President
Muhammadu Buhari is doing. If anything, the document showed him as a man
without honour, credibility and character because he is promising to do all the
things he has railed against and de-legitimised in the past.
“We make bold to
state that Mr Obi lacks the mental acuity and rigour for the job he is asking
Nigerians to entrust to him. He is
surely not ready and prepared to be the president this great country deserves.
And if indeed the Labour Party candidate paid for the wishy-washy document.”
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