African Democratic Congress (ADC) has said the All Progressives Congress (APC) is engaged in the same ruinous game that the former ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) played at the height of its powers.
The ADC told the APC that defections will not save it from defeat in 2027.
The party stated this in a reaction to comments by the APC national chairman, Dr. Nentawe Yilwatda, that “key ADC figures” would join the party next week.
Its national publicity secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, said the scramble for membership from across the political spectrum underscores the APC’s growing realisation that it has become hugely unpopular with ordinary Nigerians who hate the ruling party for the hardship it has brought upon them.
“There is nothing new in the game that the APC is playing. It is the same ruinous game that the PDP played at the height of its powers.
The APC will also learn the bitter lesson that real democratic power lies with the people and not a few power merchants,” the ADC said.
He added that there is a deep realisation by the ruling party that it cannot be saved even if all the governors in Nigeria defected to the ruling party.
ADC said this why even with all the governors and senators they have been bragging about, the APC is still desperate for ADC members.
“The truth remains that the APC realises that it has become the most hated party in Nigeria, and no amount of defections can save the party from Nigerians whose lives and livelihoods the ruling party has destroyed since it came to power.
“Like we have noted earlier, the recent gale of high-profile defections to the ruling party is properly understood by ordinary Nigerians as a gang-up against the people by a ruling elite who have left the people behind in abject poverty and are only interested in self-preservation even as their people wallow in misery.
“We wonder if the APC has run out of governors to seduce that it has now turned to shadowy references to unnamed ADC members? If these individuals are so “key”, let the chairman of the hated party mention their names.”
