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The All Progressives Congress (APC) has fired back at governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), accusing them of failing their citizens, their party, and the country, after the opposition governors criticised the ruling party’s governance style.
The PDP Governors’ Forum, after a meeting in Gusau, Zamfara State, on Saturday, August 23, alleged that the APC had “no agenda, no vision and was undermining democratic values,” warning that Nigerians would reject the ruling party in the 2027 general elections.
In a strongly worded response on Monday, APC National Publicity Secretary Felix Morka dismissed the PDP governors’ remarks as “odiferous hypocrisy” and described the opposition party as a “shadow of its old self.”
“It is morbidly comical for the governors of the PDP, a party in deep comatose, savagely crippled by intractable crisis of its own making, and turned into an unrecognizable shadow of its old self, to be making statements that only aptly describe its own doomed fate, now and in the lead up to 2027,” Morka said.
The ruling party argued that the PDP should be more concerned with reviving its “terminally ailing” structure rather than making “frivolous and senseless allegations” against the APC.
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“When its governors gather in their scanty numbers, one would expect them to have some shame and concentrate on how to resuscitate their terminally ailing party with urgency and responsibility. Instead, they waste time making baseless allegations and innuendos against our great party,” the statement read.
Morka further said the outcome of the just-concluded bye-elections was proof of Nigerians’ confidence in President Bola Tinubu’s administration. According to him, the APC’s victory — including in non-APC-controlled states — contradicted PDP governors’ claims of undemocratic practices.
“APC’s decisive win in states like Zamfara, Adamawa, and Kano flies in the face of PDP governors’ baseless allegations. The electorate in those states voted massively for our candidates despite the state-sponsored thuggery and violence unleashed by opposition governments,” Morka said.
The APC also accused the PDP of double standards, saying it only praised elections it won but discredited those it lost.
“It is infantile and irresponsible for PDP governors to hail democracy where they win bye-elections and decry it where they lose. The PDP’s fortunes cannot be the barometer for measuring the credibility of Nigeria’s electoral process,” the statement added.
The ruling party insisted that the opposition had nothing new to offer Nigerians, declaring that Tinubu’s Renewed Hope agenda was already delivering results.
“These inept governors are in no position to dictate to Nigerians how they should vote in 2027. The PDP has nothing of value to offer, just as it has had no credible ideas or policies in the last three election cycles in which Nigerians handed it scathing verdicts of failure,” Morka stated.
