The Lagos state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC)  Sunday condemned the just concluded convention of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) held in Ibadan, describing it as a charade, an embarrassment and  a valedictory service to the party.

The party in a statement issued by its publicity secretary, Seye Oladejo,  said the purported convention was a show of confusion and desperation, and an embarrassment to the political class- a new low for an erstwhile national party.

APC said the boycott of the convention by notable leaders of the party, including incumbent state governors,  was an indication that the party is sick.

“Their refusal to attend the non-event underscored what Nigerians have long suspected, that the PDP is terminally ill, surviving only on occasional media noise and nostalgic delusions. When a house is collapsing, even its architects flee.”

APC noted that to deepen the absurdity, it is ridiculous and profoundly revealing that many delegates from thirteen states stayed away entirely from the confusion christened a national convention. 

“When a party’s own delegates choose absence over association, the diagnosis is clear: the patient is not just unwell; it is clinically unresponsive.

“To compound the tragedy, the refusal of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to monitor the event put a final seal on the exercise in futility. When the nation’s electoral umpire declines to acknowledge your convention, what remains is nothing but a political gathering stripped of legitimacy, relevance, and meaning.

“This valedictory service, otherwise called a convention, merely provided an opportunity for the caricature of its dwindling membership to gather and formally say their nunc dimittis – their farewell – until they converge again under yet another hastily assembled platform. For many, this was not a convention but a dignified farewell to a political structure that has outlived its usefulness.”