The All Progressives Congress, APC, has described the 2023 Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi as a blatant liar.
APC said alleged Obi’s blatant distortions and
misinformation was calculated to mobilize outrage against President Bola
Tinubu’s administration.
Felix Morka, the National Publicity Secretary of APC, said
Obi’s remark that Nigeria’s economic crisis was caused by the nine years of
APC-led administration was misleading and a lie.
In a statement he signed, Morka said the Peoples Democratic
Party, PDP, was responsible for the country’s economic crisis and not APC.
The statement by Morka reads partly: “The presidential
candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 general elections and former Governor
of Anambra State, Mr Peter Obi, has continued, unabashedly, to showcase his
obsessive devotion to self promotion against the best interest of Nigeria.
“Mr Obi’s latest statement on the country’s economic
situation is an admixture of half truths, blatant distortions and
misinformation calculated to mobilize outrage against the All Progressives
Congress (APC) government of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
“His warped conclusion that Nigeria’s economic crisis was
caused by nine years of APC-led administration is a highly revisionist,
dishonest, distorted and deliberately misleading assessment of the country’s
economic trajectory in the last decade. He opined, rather mischievously, that
no efforts were being made by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration to
tackle poverty and unemployment in the country.
“The facts tell a far more complex and different story. The
country’s economic decline began under the watch of the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) with GDP growth plummeting from 7.98% in 2010 to 2.79% in 2015. And
since 2015, the global oil price crash, geopolitical tensions, climate change,
global COVID pandemic and rising population have all taken a toll on Nigeria’s
economy that is almost entirely dependent on drastically reduced oil export
earnings.
“The growth recorded during the PDP years was due entirely
to high price of crude oil and increased government spending that it
supported.”
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