The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Saturday, claimed that Nigerians are boldly making their stance known through the growing number of defections from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the ruling party.
The spokesperson for the APC in Lagos State, Seye Oladejo described some of the politicians remaining in the PDP as understakers waiting for the opposition party’s final burial.
Reacting to the influx of politicians and leaders to the APC, Oladejo in a statement said, the PDP has become a fractured structure with this growing wave.
“The PDP’s claim that defections cannot break it is not only laughable but also betrays the party’s chronic state of denial, delusion and self-deception.
“What is happening to the PDP today is not mere political migration, it is the inevitable consequence of years of internal deceit, lack of ideology, and serial betrayal among its leaders,” Oladejo said.
According to him, many loyalists and supporters of the PDP have since lost faith in the party because its leaders failed to adopt reforms that could offer a credible alternative to the people.
He added, “The few remaining members of the PDP are perhaps the undertakers – staying behind only to perform the final rites and fittingly dispose of what remains of a once-dominant but now lifeless political carcass.”
The party’s spokesperson noted that having mismanaged Nigeria’s economy and key sectors for 16 years, the PDP lost its relevance after losing the election in 2015 and has failed to reinvent itself.
He also attributed the massive defection of politicians from the PDP to the APC to the people’s confidence in President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda.
In addition, he stated that the PDP cannot continue to claim that it’s unshaken by these defections whereas the party is nearing its final exit from Nigeria and Africa’s political space.
Oladejo also assured Nigerians that these defections into the APC are not just mere victories for the party but an endorsement of the ruling party’s committment to delivering a people-oriented governance.
The article was originally published on Politics Nigeria.
