{"id":235590,"date":"2025-09-11T15:44:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T15:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.name.ng\/news\/apc-claims-tinubus-borrowing-is-strategic-faults-peter-obis-criticism\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T15:44:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T15:44:17","slug":"apc-claims-tinubus-borrowing-is-strategic-faults-peter-obis-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/apc-claims-tinubus-borrowing-is-strategic-faults-peter-obis-criticism\/","title":{"rendered":"APC claims Tinubu\u2019s borrowing is strategic, faults Peter Obi\u2019s criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has criticised Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi over his remarks on the Federal Government\u2019s borrowing.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued on Thursday and titled \u201cPeter Obi\u2019s Borrowing Hypocrisy: Physician, Heal Thyself\u201d, APC spokesman Seye Oladejo accused Obi of lacking the moral standing to challenge President Bola Tinubu\u2019s policies on loans.<\/p>\n<p>Obi, a former governor of Anambra State, had recently urged accountants to confront the <a href=\"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/tinubu\">Tinubu <\/a>administration over what he described as \u201creckless borrowings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Responding, Oladejo argued that borrowing under the current government was strategic and directed at critical sectors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst, borrowing is not inherently reckless. What matters is purpose and prudence,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnder President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, borrowing is tied to infrastructure, energy, transportation, and other productive sectors. This is globally accepted practice \u2013 even advanced economies borrow to fund growth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He further contended that Obi had no authority to speak on prudence, recalling that his tenure in Anambra was marked by unpaid pensions, dilapidated infrastructure, and weak human capital development.<\/p>\n<p>Oladejo also described Obi as inconsistent, citing his use of private jets during the 2023 campaign despite preaching cost-cutting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor someone who flew around the world in private jets while sermonising about cutting costs, the contradictions are glaring,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>According to the APC spokesman, unlike Obi\u2019s \u201cmotivational-speech politics,\u201d President <a href=\"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/tinubu\">Tinubu <\/a>is implementing tough but necessary reforms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSubsidy removal, currency reforms, and targeted borrowing are difficult but inevitable measures to secure Nigeria\u2019s future. This is leadership in action, not empty moralising,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The article was originally published on Politics Nigeria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has criticised Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi over his remarks on the Federal Government\u2019s borrowing. In a statement issued on Thursday and titled \u201cPeter Obi\u2019s Borrowing Hypocrisy: Physician, Heal Thyself\u201d, APC spokesman Seye Oladejo accused Obi of lacking the moral standing to challenge President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":235591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/APC-Flag.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}