With 40m membership, we’ll defeat PDP again in 2023 elections, APC boasts

By Ikechukwu Okaforadi

All Progressives Congress (APC) has made a boast against the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) saying that with over forty million membership in its kitty, the ruling party will still defeat the opposition party in the 2023 general election

APC stated this in a statement issued yesterday by the National Secretary of the APC Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC), John James Akpanudoedehe, in reply to the comments by PDP that despite poaching of governors and senators of the opposition party, the ruling party must be defeated in 2023 presidential elections.

According to the party, most of the governors and senators defecting from the opposition party to the ruling party were doing so because the PDP lacked transparency, internal democracy and fairness, adding that PDP is doomed to fail in any future elections because it is rudderless, leaderless and devoid of anything coherent and organisational.

Part of the statement titled ‘Our Electoral Successes Based on Public Trust’, reads “The All Progressives Congress (APC) rejects the allegation of planned rigging in 2023 by the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus. The APC’s track record in implementing projects and programmes that meet the needs of Nigerians is attracting more members, supporters and sympathisers from all over the country into the party.

“Strong internal democracy, transparency and fairness in the conduct of its affairs, which are demonstrably lacking in the PDP, are additional reasons that make the APC a better option for Nigerians, including serving State Governors, National and State Assembly members who are abandoning the PDP and joining the APC.

“We want to remind Nigerians that while many APC members were victims of rigging when the PDP was in power, the APC has no record of rigging elections. The Muhammadu Buhari-led administration has introduced electoral reforms aimed at ensuring that all loopholes that open the electoral process to possible abuse in future elections are sealed and eliminated.

“The PDP is doomed to fail in any future elections because it is rudderless, leaderless and devoid of anything coherent and organisational, thus making it moribund, irrelevant and too feeble to be an effective opposition.

“The only thing that held the PDP together in the 16 years was access to national resources of which it has been deprived of feasting on by the electorates whose trust it lost during two general elections.”