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The All Progressives Congress, APC, has declared that President Bola Tinubu is better positioned for victory in the 2027 presidential election than opposition candidates Atiku Abubakar, Peter Obi, Donald Duke and Seyi Makinde.

The party’s National Chairman, Professor Nentawe Yilwatda, made the declaration on Thursday while hosting members of the Forum of APC House of Representatives Aspirants at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja.

Yilwatda argued that the opposition figures could not match Tinubu when their records in public office were compared with those of the incumbent president.

Atiku, Obi, Duke and Makinde are the presidential candidates of the African Democratic Congress, ADC; Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC; Peoples Redemption Party, PRP; and Allied People’s Movement, APM, respectively.

Addressing the gathering, the APC chairman cited road infrastructure as one of the areas in which he believes the opposition candidates fall short of Tinubu.

He questioned the road projects delivered with the N300 billion budget reportedly released for road construction during the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, when Atiku served as vice president.

“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.

Yilwatda challenged Nigerians to identify roads constructed with the allocation, using the issue to question the record of the former administration.

“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.

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