The All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused governors under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of failing their citizens, their party, and themselves through what it described as disgracefully poor governance in their respective states.
APC disclosed this in a statement on Monday issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka.
The statement followed PDP’s governors meeting in Zamfara State on Saturday.
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The APC said the PDP governors displayed “rank hypocrisy” by accusing the ruling party of undemocratic conduct.
The party claimed PDP lacked vision and agenda, and predicted the party’s electoral defeat in 2027.
The APC stressed that Nigeria would not return to what it called the “dark era” of PDP-led federal administration, when many state governments were left virtually bankrupt and unable to pay even basic wages.
According to the party, President Bola Tinubu has set Nigeria on a “clear and new path of prosperity” and will not be derailed by what it described as “mischievous distractions” from the PDP and its “floundering governors.”
The APC added that Nigerians are fully aware of the party that is working diligently to deliver 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 but boast vainly and deceptively about doing better for Africa’s most populous country”, said APC.
The party urged Nigerians to disregard what it described as the empty and misleading rhetoric of PDP governors, whom it labelled as “detractors.”
The party urged Nigerians to remain steadfast with Tinubu and the APC in their march towards a confident future of genuine development and shared prosperity for all.
The APC further described it as laughable that PDP governors—presiding over a party it said was in deep coma, savagely crippled by self-inflicted crises, and reduced to a shadow of its former self—would issue statements that more accurately mirror their own doomed fate, both now and in the lead-up to 2027.
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According to the APC, the PDP has collapsed into ruins and been rejected by Nigerians.
It added that when the governors of the opposition party gather in such meagre numbers, the least expected of them would be to show some humility and focus on reviving their terminally ill party with urgency and responsibility.
The statement further read: “Instead, they prefer to waste their time making frivolous and senseless allegations and innuendos against our great Party. The APC’s dominant victory in the just-concluded bye-elections attests 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 bye-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, and 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 despite 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-election 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.
“These inept governors are in no position to suggest to Nigerian voters what their disposition to the 2027 elections should be. The PDP has nothing of value to offer Nigerians now, and hasn’t had any credible alternative ideas or policies to offer in the last three general election cycles in which Nigerians have handed it scathing verdicts of merited failure.
“Opposition politics must go beyond finger-pointing at the APC that is busy justifying itself, and delivering evidence-backed, transformative governance that Nigerians are witnessing under the present APC-led administration across all sectors of our national life.
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“The PDP Governors are some of the biggest beneficiaries of President Tinubu’s outstanding economic policy innovation that is revamping and revitalising our country’s economy for sustained growth and progress. Even with federal revenue allocation to state governments that has more than doubled under this President of Progress, distributing 2Trillion Naira as of July 20285, the highest ever allocated by any government in history.”
