The All Progressives Congress, APC, has claimed that opposition figures Atiku Abubakar, Peter Obi, Donald Duke and Seyi Makinde cannot match President Bola Tinubu in the 2027 presidential election.
The party’s National Chairman, Professor Nentawe Yilwatda, made the statement on Thursday while receiving members of the Forum of APC House of Representatives Aspirants at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja.
Yilwatda argued that the opposition candidates could not match Tinubu’s record in governance, insisting that the president had a stronger performance record.
The four politicians are associated with the presidential tickets of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, Peoples Redemption Party, PRP, and Allied People’s Movement, APM, respectively.
“No political party, as it stands today, has a more credible candidate than President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. We have facts; we have records that if we put them vis-à-vis any other candidate that is on this ballot, none match our own candidate. None. I mean, none. None.
“Show the scorecard of other presidents, of other candidates, and then we now put them side by side Mr President, and none of them come close to matching Mr President, even in terms of building institutions,” he said.
Speaking about infrastructure, Yilwatda questioned the road projects delivered with the N300 billion budget released for roads during the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, when Atiku served as vice president.
“We were here live. When the president gave road projects of over N300 billion, when another person was the Minister of Works, we couldn’t find even the road that was patched with that budget. We are struggling to find the roads.
“Show me one road, a span of 500 kilometres, that was constructed with that money, just one. You can’t find it, but I can pinpoint many roads across the country that were constructed just in three years,” he stated.
