ADC: No Defections Can Save APC in 2027
*Says ruling party has realised it’s more hated by Nigerians
Chuks Okocha in Abuja
The African Democratic Congress (ADC), has reacted to comments made by the APC National Chairman, Dr. Nentawe Yilwatda, that “key ADC figures” would join the party next week, saying the array of defections would not save the ruling party in 2027.
The ADC, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, said the scramble for membership from across the political spectrum underscores the APC growing realisation that it has become hugely unpopular with ordinary Nigerians who now hate the ruling party for the hardship it has brought upon them.
According to the spokesman of the ADC, ”The attention of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) has been drawn to the declaration by the National Chairman of the ruling APC, Dr. Nentawe Yilwatda, at a stakeholders’ meeting in Jos that ‘key ADC figures’ will be received into the APC next week.
”This statement underscores a deep realisation by the ruling party that it cannot be saved even if all the governors in Nigeria defected to the ruling party. This is 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 the 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.”
The ADC said there was nothing new in the game that the APC was playing, adding that it was 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,” he stated.
