By Jude Opara, Abuja
The All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday reacted to the recent meeting of governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), for alleging that the ruling party lacked the agenda and the vision to pull the country out of its woes.
It could be recalled that the PDP governors in their meeting in Zamfara state on Saturday claimed that the APC had failed to provide the dividends of democracy to the people, adding that they would punish the party by voting them out in the 2027 elections.
But in a direct response, National Publicity Secretary (NPS) of the APC, Barr. Felix Morka said the PDP is now in ruins and therefore rejected by Nigerians, despite their efforts to paint a different picture.
“It is morbidly comical for the Governors of the PDP, a party in deep comatose, savagely crippled by intractable crisis of its own making, and turned an unrecognizable shadow of its old self, to be making 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”.
Morka further boasted that the outcome of the just conducted by-elections in some states is a clear indication that the APC remains the preferred platform for NJ Nigerians.
“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 by-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’s decisive win in non-APC states like Zamfara, Adamawa, Kano flies in the face of PDP Governors’ baseless allegations of undemocratic dealings by our 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 by-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”.
The APC added that the PDP Governors are some of the biggest beneficiaries of President Tinubu’s economic policy innovation which has seen federal revenue allocation to state governments more than doubled.
“Nigerians know the Party that is working assiduously for Renewed Hope and national renewal. They are highly discerning and know what is best for them and our dear country. They will not be hoodwinked by opposition parties that cannot manage their own internal affairs, who have failed to drive progress in their small states as Governors,” the statement added.
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