The Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has described the endorsement Labour Party’s Presidential Candidate Mr. Peter Obi by former President Olusegun Obasanjo as worthless.
APC made its position known on Sunday in a statement issued by Bayo Onanuga, the Director of Media and Publicity of PCC.
“Following calls by journalists from various media houses who asked for our reaction we decided to make this preliminary statement, though we didn’t consider the so-called endorsement to be of any value”.
“We respect the democratic right of former President Obasanjo to support and endorse any candidate of his choice in any election.”
”Except that he made it known formally in his new year message, any discerning political watcher in Nigeria knows that Chief Obasanjo’s preference for Peter Obi is expected. He had earlier stated his position at various public events, the last being at the 70th birthday anniversary of Chief John Nwodo, former President of Ohaneze Ndigbo in Enugu,” Onanuga stated.
APC PCC further declared that its party and the party’s Presidential Candidate Asíwájú Bola Ahmed Tinubu will not lose sleep over Obasanjo’s move adding that “Obasanjo is notorious for always opposing progressive political forces, as he did against MKO Abiola in 1993.”
“The endorsement is actually worthless because the former President does not possess any political goodwill or leverage anywhere in Nigeria to make anyone win a Councillorship election let alone win a Presidential election. He is a political paperweight.”
“From our records, President Obasanjo has not successfully made anyone win election in Nigeria since then. Not even in Ogun State can anyone rely on his support or endorsement to become a governor or Councillor,” Onanuga added.
Onanuga therefore concluded that Chief Obasanjo’s endorsement is not a political currency Mr. Peter Obi can spend anywhere in Nigeria because he is not a political force, even in his part of the country.
He affirmed that the presidential candidate of the APC Asíwájú Bola Ahmed Tinubu will beat Obi by a large margin in the 2023 elections.
