The All Progressives Congress(APC), has blasted the governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for saying, the ruling party lacked agenda and vision, hence the electorate would deny it support in 2027.
All Progressives Congress (APC) has blasted the governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the saying the ruling party lacked agenda and vision, hence the electorate would reject it in 2027.
In a statement by its national publicity secretary, Felix Morka, in Abuja yesterday, the APC said the PDP governors who at their meeting in Zamfara State over the weekend accused it of undemocratic conduct have failed themselves, their party and Nigerians.
The ruling party said it was comical for PDP governors whose party is in deep comatose and crippled by intractable crisis to make statements that only aptly describe its own doomed fate, now and in the lead up to 2027.
“The PDP has since fallen into ruins, and stands rejected by Nigerians. When its governors gather in their scanty numbers, one would expect them to have some shame and concentrate on how to resuscitate their terminally ailing party with a sense of urgency and responsibility. Instead, they prefer to waste their time making frivolous and senseless allegations and innuendos against our great Party.
“The APC’s dominant victory in the just-concluded bye-elections attest loudly to the level that President Bola Tinubu’s administration’s Renewed Hope policies and programmes are resonating with Nigerians, and underscores the electorate’s solid confidence in our Party.
“It is infantile and irresponsible for PDP Governors to hail democracy where they won in the bye-election and decry democracy everywhere they lost. The victory or defeat of the PDP or other opposition parties is not, and cannot become, the barometer for measuring the credibility of our country’s electoral process or performance. That would be invidiously anti-democratic and unacceptable,” APC said.
It added that the party’s decisive win in non-APC states like Zamfara, Adamawa and Kano flied in the face of PDP governors’ baseless allegations of undemocratic dealings by the ruling party.
“Quite to the contrary, the electorate in those states voted hugely in support of our candidates in-spite of the state-sponsored thuggery and violence unleashed against our candidates and loyalists by opposition state governments.
“The PDP Governors should eat the humble pie and accept the bye-elections verdict as a categorical declaration of loss of confidence and rejection of their party by the voting public. Wallowing in denial of the party’s expired political vitality and relevance is a reckless betrayal by PDP Governors of their highly disillusioned members still hanging hopelessly on straws of hope for an elusive miracle to turn the tide for their party.
“Opposition politics must go beyond finger pointing at APC that is busy justifying itself, and delivering evidence-backed transformative governance that Nigerians are witnessing under the present APC-led administration across all sectors of our national life.
“Nigeria will not return to the dark era of the PDP-led federal administration when many state governments were literally bankrupt and unable to meet even their basic wage bills,” APC said.
