Lagos APC Blasts Peter Obi, Labels Him “Master Defector Suffering Political Amnesia”

The Lagos State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has hit back at former presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi, over his recent claim that “nobody can capture the South-East with defections.”

In a strongly worded statement issued on Wednesday, the Lagos APC Publicity Secretary, Hon. Seye Oladejo, described Obi as “the undisputed master defector in Nigerian politics,” accusing him of hypocrisy and selective memory.

Oladejo said it was ironic that Obi, who had moved from the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and later to the Labour Party, was now attempting to moralize on political loyalty.

“It is rather amusing that the same Peter Obi — the undisputed master defector — now pretends to have a moral right to lecture anyone about political loyalty. His entire career has been built on defection, opportunism, and expediency,” Oladejo stated.

The APC spokesman dismissed Obi’s suggestion that the ruling party was attempting to “capture” the South-East through defections, insisting that the region was merely aligning with “the national mainstream.”

“The APC is not capturing the South-East. The region is voluntarily aligning with the national mainstream because Nigerians are done with emotional blackmail, divisive rhetoric, and politics of victimhood,” he said.

Oladejo added that Nigerians, including those in the South-East, now prefer inclusion, infrastructure, and investment to “empty crusades and sentimental activism.”

He further claimed that Obi’s political influence had waned since the 2023 general elections, alleging that the Labour Party candidate had become “politically stranded — abandoned by allies, weakened by reality, and walking alone in a wilderness of his own making.”

According to Oladejo, the politics of isolation, sanctimony, and religious sentiment no longer resonate with Nigerians who, he said, are embracing “unity and progress under the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.”

“The earlier Obi faces that truth, the better for what remains of his political relevance,” Oladejo concluded.