{"id":237228,"date":"2025-11-09T15:26:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T15:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.name.ng\/news\/anambra-election-fix-your-polling-unit-before-talking-about-fixing-nigeria-apc-tells-peter-obi\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T15:26:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T15:26:38","slug":"anambra-election-fix-your-polling-unit-before-talking-about-fixing-nigeria-apc-tells-peter-obi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/anambra-election-fix-your-polling-unit-before-talking-about-fixing-nigeria-apc-tells-peter-obi\/","title":{"rendered":"Anambra Election: Fix Your Polling Unit Before Talking About Fixing Nigeria \u2013 APC Tells Peter Obi"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has advised former Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, <\/strong>to abandon any plans for the 2027 presidential race, insisting that his political influence has collapsed.<\/p>\n

Abia Radio News<\/strong> reports that the party made the remark on Sunday while reacting to Obi\u2019s inability to deliver his polling unit for the Labour Party during the Anambra governorship election.<\/p>\n

APC Lagos spokesperson, Seye Oladejo<\/strong>, mocked Obi\u2019s credibility as a national contender, querying how he intends to lead Nigeria when he \u201ccannot command loyalty in his own neighbourhood.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

In a strongly worded statement, Oladejo said Obi\u2019s loss at his polling unit reflects a deeper collapse of the political momentum he rode on during the 2023 elections.<\/p>\n

\u201cA man who cannot win his polling unit has no business dreaming of winning a country. A man who is rejected on his street cannot claim nationwide acceptance. A man whose strongest base has crumbled cannot sell the lie of a national movement,<\/em>\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Oladejo added that the defeat marked \u201cthe complete disintegration of the myth around Peter Obi.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018We Hope He Won\u2019t Run Abroad to Beg Again\u2019 \u2013 APC<\/h2>\n

The party accused Obi of seeking foreign intervention after local setbacks, saying: \u201cWe sincerely hope Mr. Obi will not run to beg for foreign intervention to rescue him from this political free fall, as he has unashamedly attempted in recent times. Nigeria\u2019s democracy is not a toy for desperate politicians seeking sympathy abroad after being rejected at home.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

Contrasting Obi with President Bola Tinubu, Oladejo said the President is consolidating governance while Obi is \u201cgranting contradictory interviews and hiding behind hashtags that collapse at the ballot box.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile President Bola Ahmed Tinubu <\/a>is rebuilding institutions, fixing the economy, expanding infrastructure, attracting foreign investments, and restoring global confidence, Peter Obi is busy seeking international validation,<\/em>\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Oladejo emphasised that Nigerians will not entrust their future to someone who allegedly lacks the confidence of his own base.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf Peter Obi cannot command trust in his polling unit, he should forget 2027. Nigerians will not hand over their destiny to a man whose own people have loudly withdrawn their confidence,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n

He added that the APC\u2019s victory in Obi\u2019s polling unit was \u201csymbolic, conclusive, and prophetic,\u201d <\/em>claiming it reflected \u201cthe national mood.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cPerformance is triumphing over propaganda; structure is defeating chaos; delivery is destroying deception,\u201d t<\/em>he Lagos APC advised Obi to address the issues within his political base before positioning himself as a national fixer.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeter Obi should spare the nation further melodrama. Let him first repair the political damage at his doorstep before pretending he can repair Nigeria,\u201d<\/em> Oladejo said.<\/p>\n

Abia Radio News<\/strong> reports that the remarks add to the escalating political tensions as parties and stakeholders position themselves ahead of the 2027 general election.<\/p>\n

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The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has advised former Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, to abandon any plans for the 2027 presidential race, insisting that his political influence has collapsed. Abia Radio News reports that the party made the remark on Sunday while reacting to Obi\u2019s inability to deliver his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":234914,"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":[1957,287,274],"class_list":["post-237228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-anambra-governorship-election","tag-apc","tag-peter-obi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/PETER-OBI1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237228","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=237228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}