The Presidential Campaign Council of President Bola Tinubu in the forthcoming 2027 general election has taken a swipe at the presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, Peter Obi.
In a statement, the council’s spokesperson, Dele Alake, said Obi’s record as Anambra State Governor was poor.
Alake claimed that in the past four years, Obi and his supporters packaged his tenure in Anambra, as one of exceptional fiscal prudence, including the claim that he left Anambra without a debt burden. Obi himself was presented as a squeaky-clean politician.
He, however, said that it had all emerged as a well-packaged lie.
“The facade of falsehood built around Peter Obi, the NDC presidential candidate, has now been torn to shreds, with Obi’s persona deconstructed after disclosures by the Anambra State Government, which responded to Obi’s challenge to verify his record,” he said.
According to the Anambra State Government, the former governor spent about USD 4.05 billion, or N5.4 trillion, over his eight years in office and contracted USD 123.77 million in external loans.
The state also revealed that, as of when Obi left office on March 17, 2014, there were eight different external borrowings for malaria, erosion control, education, and healthcare, and that subsequent administrations, including Governor Chukwuma Soludo’s, continued to service the debt.
