By Adim Williams
It is sad and unfortunate how things have turned out in our dear country under the All Progressives Congress, APC who assumed power rightly or wrongly since May, 2023. Every aspect of our national life has gone from bad to the worst since independence. From security, economy, politics and even social life, it is all a tale of woes. All they engage in are massive borrowing and unjustifiable expenditures resulting in hyperinflation, extreme hardship and hopelessness.
Now that the APC is seeking for re-election in the forth-coming 2027 elections, one would expect them to brandish and even gloat with their achievements for their campaigns, but we see none of that. Rather, they have engaged in a relentless but futile effort to de-market, diminish, tarnish and even stop Mr Peter Obi of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC – the only candidate on whom Nigerians have implicit hope to salvage them from ravenous and unconscionable old brigade politicians.
If this treacherous onslaught was being done by APC alone, it might have been understandable since the party has nothing to campaign with. But ironically, other contending political parties have joined in the fray, including African Democratic Congress, ADC, Labour Party, LP etc. These parties have a deluge of internal problems and have so far not told Nigerians what they can do differently from the disastrous APC, yet they all have their poisonous arrows pointed at Peter Obi.
So the question people are asking daily is: why the obsession with Peter Obi by both the ruling party and other opposition parties? Well, the reasons are simple. First and foremost, Peter Obi under NDC is by far the front-runner presidential candidate for the 2027 presidential election. His personality, integrity, message, achievements and above all, his philosophy of governance have endeared him to vast majority of Nigerians long before now. Reason they voted massively for him in 2023 and will vote him even more massively in 2027.
Moreso, it is common knowledge that the 2023 election result was tampered, using a phantom glitch as escape. The authentic numbers got by Peter Obi scared his detractors. If he could get those figures with a small party and within just six months of campaign, imagine what will happen now that he has the time to prepare for 2027 election and with the collaboration of the most popular Northern politician alive; Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso as vice president, VP. Hence the apprehension, deflections and distractions!
