The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has reacted to comments made by APC National Chairman Dr Nentawe Yilwatda that “key ADC figures” would join the party next week, saying defections will not save the ruling party in 2027.
At a meeting of party stakeholders in his home state of Plateau, the APC national chairman had said: “Next week I will host some notable figures from the ADC.
“Some of those who defected from the PDP have contacted ADC and are now returning to APC. Many of them have completed their ‘medical examinations’ and will be officially presented next week.”
The ADC, in a statement signed by Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, the party’s National Publicity Secretary, said the fight for membership across the political spectrum underlines the growing realization by the APC that it has become hugely unpopular among ordinary Nigerians who now hate the ruling party for the hardships it has brought them.
The full statement read: “The attention of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) has been drawn to the statement by the National Chairman of the ruling APC, Dr. Nentawe Yilwatda, at a stakeholder meeting in Jos that “key figures of the ADC” will be welcomed into the APC next week.
“This statement underlines a deep realization on the part of the ruling party that it cannot be saved even if all Nigerian governors defect to the ruling party. That is why even with all the governors and senators they have been boasting about, the APC is still desperate for ADC members.
“The truth is that the APC realizes that it has become the most hated party in Nigeria, and no amount of defections will be able to save the party from Nigerians whose lives and livelihoods the ruling party has destroyed since it came to power.
“As we have noted before, ordinary Nigerians rightly understand the recent gale of high-profile defections to the ruling party as a conspiracy against the people by a ruling elite that has left the people behind in abject poverty and is only interested in self-preservation even as its people wallow in misery.
“We wonder if the APC has run out of governors to woo, and if it has now resorted to obscure references to anonymous members of the ADC. If these individuals are so “key”, that the president of the hated party mentions their names.
“There is nothing new in the game the APC is playing. It is the same ruinous game that the PDP played at the height of its powers. The APC will also learn the bitter lesson that true democratic power lies with the people and not a few power mongers.”
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