Anambra Poll: APC Taunts Peter Obi After Losing Polling Unit, Calls Obidient Movement ‘Empty Hype’

The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has mocked Labour Party’s 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi, after reports indicated that he lost his polling unit to the APC in the just-concluded Anambra governorship election.

In a statement issued on Sunday, Seye Oladejo, the APC Lagos spokesperson, said the outcome of the poll signaled “a total rejection” of the Obidient movement, describing it as “a political hologram—bright on social media, empty in real life.”

Oladejo said Obi’s inability to secure victory in his own community amounted to a “public humiliation” and “an unmistakable verdict” by those who know him best.

“The people who know Peter Obi best—his neighbours, his own community, his supposed natural base—have delivered an unmistakable judgment: ‘We reject you. We don’t trust you. We have seen through you.’”

He accused Obi of creating “a brand built on self-righteous monologues, manufactured statistics, emotional manipulation, and an aura of victimhood,” adding that the Labour Party leader had misled many young Nigerians with empty rhetoric.

“A man who cannot win his polling unit has no business dreaming of winning a country,” Oladejo said. “A man rejected on his street cannot claim nationwide acceptance.”

According to him, the result of the Anambra poll “marks the complete disintegration of the myth surrounding Peter Obi.”

Oladejo also mocked the former governor’s recent engagements with international bodies, saying:

“We hope Mr. Obi will not run abroad seeking foreign intervention to rescue him from this political free fall, as he has attempted in recent times.”

He contrasted Obi’s record with that of President Bola Tinubu, whom he credited with “rebuilding institutions, fixing the economy, expanding infrastructure, attracting foreign investments, and restoring global confidence.”

Oladejo concluded that the APC’s victory in Obi’s polling unit was “symbolic, conclusive, and prophetic,” claiming it reflected the broader national mood in which, according to him, “performance is triumphing over propaganda; structure is defeating chaos; and delivery is destroying deception.”

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