APC orchestrating crisis to retain power beyond 2027 — NNPP

New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) has accused the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of orchestrating crisis in some of the opposition parties in the country to continue to retain power beyond 2027.

This is just as the National Chairman of the party, Ajuji Ahmed, expressed the readiness to ally with other political parties in the country to dislodge the ruling APC in the 2027 general election.

Ajuji who stated this during the flag-off campaign for the party’s Ondo state governorship candidate, Olugbenga Edema, alleged that APC had been interfering in the internal affairs of other parties to weaken the parties structures and take control.

According to him, APC has concluded plans to disrupt the merger talk by opposition to come together as a strong force against APC and dislodge the ruling party in the 2023 general elections.

“The APC is doing everything it can to win the 2027 general election. Certainly, there is evidence everywhere that they are interfering with the other party.

“But it is left to the other political party to maintain their integrity and ensure they remain one and viable opposition to the APC before and after the 2027 election,” the Ajuji said.

He called on the ruling APC to prepare to hand over power to an opposition party after President Bola Tinubu’s government, disclosing that the NNPP had been in collaboration with opposition parties to ally ahead of the 2027 poll.

He said “So, we have our doors open in such a way that if there is going to be a coalition of all the political parties to go into the election, we are ready for that,”

He expressed the NNPP’s readiness to capture Ondo and pleaded with the people to troop out en masse and vote for Edema, the candidate of the party, in the November election.

He described Edema as a party loyalist whose programmes and policies for the people of the state would put an end to the economic crisis and current hardship caused by the government of the APC.

Speaking at the campaign venue, Mr Edema appealed to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to be neutral in the Ondo governorship election by providing a level playing ground to all the political parties in the upcoming election.

He revealed that the people of the state are ready to stand by their votes and ensure it also counts to change the current administration in the state.

The NNPP governorship candidate also noted that the party is ready to spring surprise in the forthcoming election, warning the electoral body ot to repeat the alleged ‘electoral fraud’ in Ondo state.

“The last one was what happened in Edo state with the fraud. How they went to all the collation centers and manipulated the results of the election that were sent from the polling units was worrisome.

“They took the result from collation centres to INEC headquarters, which is contrary agianst electoral act which states that you should do your couting at the venue where the election was conduct.

“Therefore, we are saying Ondo state is not Edo state. Ondo is not Lagos state. The people of Ondo are one of the most enlightened in the whole country, and we are capable of protecting our votes, and we will protect them. We do not fare them. We will dare them,” he said.

Highlighting his programmes for the people of the state, Edema said his programme includes good health care, food security, better roads, youth empowerment, infrastructure, industrialisation, investment, and free education from primary school to tertiary institutions under his administration if elected.

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