Ahead of 2023 presidential election, the recently released manifesto of Labour Party’s 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi offers nothing refreshingly new to Nigerians but “fallacies and false statistics”, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has said.
Tinubu said this in a statement by the Director of Media & Publicity of the APC Presidential Campaign Council, Bayo Onanuga.
Tinubu’s comment was in reaction to the Labour Party and Obi’s manifesto for the 2023 general elections, titled, ‘It is Possible: Our Pact with Nigerians.’
“After perusing the document which is very high on graphics and demagogic rhetorics and short on substance, we have come to the conclusion that the document is empty and vacuous,” the statement said in part.
The statement further read, “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 of Nigerians out of poverty in 10 years, more realistic than Obi’s rhetoric tends to suggest.”
