2027: Defections or not, APC is finished — ADC

By Luminous Jannamike

ABUJA — The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has dismissed claims by the All Progressives Congress (APC) that cardinal ADC members are acceptable to defect to the ruling party, declaring that nary magnitude of defections tin prevention the APC from decision successful the 2027 wide elections.

The party’s presumption was contained successful a connection signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, who said the APC’s desperation to woo members from different governmental parties shows that it has go profoundly unpopular among Nigerians.

“The attraction of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) has been drawn to the declaration by the National Chairman of the ruling APC, Dr. Nentawe Yilwatda, astatine a stakeholders’ gathering successful Jos, that ‘key ADC figures’ volition beryllium received into the APC adjacent week,” Abdullahi said.

He added that the connection reflects the ruling party’s designation of its declining nationalist support.

“This declaration underscores a heavy realisation by the ruling enactment that it cannot beryllium saved adjacent if each the governors successful Nigeria defected to it. This is why, contempt each the governors and senators they person been bragging about, the APC is inactive hopeless for ADC members.”

The ADC accused the ruling enactment of inflicting hardship connected Nigerians, describing its existent recruitment thrust arsenic a reflection of mislaid credibility and nationalist trust.

“The information remains that the APC realises that it has go the astir hated enactment successful Nigeria. No magnitude of defections tin prevention it from Nigerians whose lives and livelihoods the ruling enactment has destroyed since it came to power,” Abdullahi stated.

The enactment further argued that the caller question of defections into the APC represents a betrayal of the Nigerian radical by members of the governmental elite who prioritize idiosyncratic summation implicit nationalist welfare.

“As we person noted earlier, the caller gale of high-profile defections to the ruling enactment is seen by mean Nigerians arsenic a gang-up against the radical by a ruling elite who person abandoned citizens successful poorness portion pursuing self-preservation,” the connection read.

The ADC challenged the APC National Chairman to sanction the expected “key figures” expected to defect from the party, describing his comments arsenic different show of the APC’s desperation.

“We wonderment if the APC has tally retired of governors to seduce that it has present resorted to shadowy references to unnamed ADC members. If these individuals are truthful ‘key,’ fto the president of the enactment notation their names,” Abdullahi said.

Drawing a examination betwixt the APC and the erstwhile ruling party, the PDP, the ADC said the APC was repeating the aforesaid mistakes that led to the downfall of its predecessor.

“There is thing caller successful the crippled the APC is playing. It is the aforesaid ruinous signifier the PDP followed astatine the tallness of its power. The APC volition besides larn the bitter acquisition that existent antiauthoritarian powerfulness lies with the people, not a fewer powerfulness merchants,” the enactment concluded.

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