APC to PDP: You stand rejected by Nigerians

The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has advised the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to halt its stance of casting aspersion on the electoral process anytime it is defeated at the polls, saying the PDP has been rejected by Nigerians.

National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Felix Morka, stated this in a statement on Monday.

The ruling party was reacting to the declaration of the PDP Governors Forum at their meeting in Gusau, Zamfara state, where they expressed strong reservations about the outcome ofthe recent by-election.

The APC maintained that the outcome of the election formed the total rejection of the erstwhile ruling party by the electorate.

Morka noted that, having been impressed by the performance of the Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration, it has become increasingly difficult for Nigerians to see the PDP as an alternative to a performing ruling party.

The statement read, “Emerging from its meeting in Zamfara State on Saturday, August 23, 2025, the Governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), again displayed their odifererous hypocrisy in a statement alleging undemocratic conduct by the All Progressives Congress (APC), opining that our great party lacked agenda and vision, and that the electorate would deny it support in 2027.

“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 an unrecognisable 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.

“The PDP has since fallen into ruins and stands rejected by Nigerians. 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 a sense of urgency and responsibility. Instead, they prefer to waste their time making frivolous and senseless allegations and innuendos against our great party.

“The APC’s dominant victory in the just-concluded by-elections attests loudly to the level that President Bola Tinubu’s administration’s Renewed Hope policies and programmes are resonating with Nigerians, and underscores the electorate’s solid confidence in our party.

“It is infantile and irresponsible for PDP Governors to hail democracy where they won in the bye-election and decry democracy everywhere they lost. The victory or defeat of the PDP or other opposition parties is not, and cannot become, the barometer for measuring the credibility of our country’s electoral process or performance. That would be invidiously anti-democratic and unacceptable.

“APC’s decisive win in non-APC states like Zamfara, Adamawa, and Kano flies in the face of PDP Governors’ baseless allegations of undemocratic dealings by our Party. Quite to the contrary, the electorate in those states voted hugely in support of our candidates in spite of the state-sponsored thuggery and violence unleashed against our candidates and loyalists by opposition state governments.

“The PDP Governors should eat the humble pie and accept the bye-elections verdict as a categorical declaration of loss of confidence and rejection of their party by the voting public. Wallowing in denial of the party’s expired political vitality and relevance is a reckless betrayal by PDP Governors of their highly disillusioned members still hanging hopelessly on straws of hope for an elusive miracle to turn the tide for their party.

“These inept Governors are in no position to suggest to Nigerian voters what their disposition to 2027 elections should be. The PDP has nothing of value to offer Nigerians now, and hasn’t had any credible alternative ideas or policies to offer in the last three general election cycles in which Nigerians have handed it scathing verdicts of merited failure.

“Opposition politics must go beyond finger-pointing at the APC that is busy justifying itself, and delivering evidence-backed transformative governance that Nigerians are witnessing under the present APC-led administration across all sectors of our national life.

“The PDP Governors are some of the biggest beneficiaries of President Tinubu’s outstanding economic policy innovation that is revamping and revitalising our country’s economy for sustained growth and progress. Even with federal revenue allocation to state governments that has more than doubled under this President of Progress, distributing 2 trillion Naira as of July 2025, the highest ever allocated by any government in history, the PDP Governors have continued to fail their citizens with disgracefully dismal performance in the governance of their states.

“Nigeria will not return to the dark era of the PDP-led federal administration when many state governments were literally bankrupt and unable to meet even their basic wage bills.

“President Tinubu has paved a new and clear path of prosperity for our country and shall not stumble on mischievous distractions fashioned by the PDP and its floundering Governors.

“Nigerians know the Party that is working assiduously for renewed hope and national renewal. They are highly discerning and know what is best for them and our dear country. They will not be hoodwinked by opposition parties that cannot manage their own internal affairs, who have failed to drive progress in their small states as Governors but boast vainly and deceptively about doing better for Africa’s most populous country.

“We urge Nigerians to ignore the empty and misleading rhetoric of these detractors, and stand fast with Mr President and our great Party as we continue the onward march into a confident future of wholesome development and shared prosperity for all Nigerians.”

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