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Ogdeni Rauf Aregbesola, erstwhile politician of Osun State and National Secretary of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), has said that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has failed Nigerians, saying his enactment remained the champion alternate for Nigerians up of 2027 wide election.
Speaking astatine the authoritative motorboat of the ADC Secretariat successful Ilorin, Kwara State, connected Saturday, helium declared that the ADC is present the lone credible alternate for Nigerians.
Aregbesola accused the APC of plunging the federation into wide hunger, insecurity, and infrastructural decay done what helium termed “incompetence, greed, and mediocre leadership.”
“Under the existent administration, hunger has taken implicit the land. Governance has been reduced to idiosyncratic enrichment and governmental intimidation. Nigerians are suffering due to the fact that of the nonaccomplishment of enactment astatine each levels nether the APC,” Aregbesola said.
The erstwhile governor, who erstwhile served arsenic Minister of Interior nether the APC government, did not clasp backmost arsenic helium accused the ruling enactment of silencing dissent and weaponising authorities institutions against perceived opponents.
“If the APC is assured of its strength, it would not beryllium hounding and haunting absorption members everywhere,” Aregbesola added.
Describing the ADC arsenic a “party of conscience and service,” Aregbesola expressed anticipation that Nigerians’ increasing dissatisfaction volition construe into a triumph for the enactment successful 2027.
“The hatred of Nigerians for the ruling enactment is obvious, and the enactment that volition harvest that unpopularity is the ADC,” helium said.
Also speaking astatine the event, erstwhile Kwara State Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed hailed the ADC’s emergence arsenic a “new dawn” successful the state’s politics.
“This is the opening of a caller absorption successful our governmental experience. The ADC is poised to entrench a enactment that reflects the existent aspirations of Kwarans,” helium said.
Echoing the sentiment, ADC National Publicity Secretary and erstwhile Minister of Youth and Sports, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, dismissed the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) arsenic ineffective, calling it a “dead enactment awaiting its obituary.” He insisted the ADC is present the lone viable absorption to the APC.
“The question is nary longer whether Kwarans privation the APC, that question has been answered. They don’t. The question present is whether we tin person them that ADC is the lone alternative, and that’s precisely what we’ll bash successful the coming elections,” helium said.
Abdullahi besides raised concerns astir worsening insecurity successful agrarian Kwara, which has disrupted farming and different livelihoods, urging the authorities to bash much to reconstruct bid and support citizens.
“Our radical tin nary longer workplace safely. The authorities indispensable bash much to reconstruct bid and guarantee that the lives of citizens are protected,” helium urged.
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