The All Progressives Congress (APC) has declared that President Bola Tinubu is better positioned than opposition presidential candidates Atiku Abubakar, Peter Obi, Donald Duke and Seyi Makinde to win the 2027 general election.
The party’s National Chairman, Professor Nentawe Yilwatda, made the claim 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 none of the opposition candidates could match Tinubu’s record, insisting that a comparison of their achievements would favour the incumbent president.
Atiku is the presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Obi represents the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), Duke is the candidate of the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP), while Makinde is associated with the Allied People’s Movement (APM).
“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.
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“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.
The APC chairman also questioned the record of former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration, during which Atiku served as vice-president, particularly regarding road construction.
Yilwatda challenged the former administration to identify major roads built with the ₦300 billion reportedly allocated for road projects during Obasanjo’s presidency.
“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.
The APC chairman maintained that Tinubu’s performance in office placed him ahead of his potential challengers as political parties begin positioning themselves for the 2027 presidential contest.