Having All 36 Governors Can’t Save APC From Defeat In 2027 —ADC

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has declared that the All Progressives Congress (APC) will be roundly defeated in 2027, even if the ruling party has all the 36 state governors as members.

The ADC said the scramble for membership from across the political spectrum underscores the APC’s growing realisation that it has become hugely unpopular with ordinary Nigerians.

A statement on Sunday by the spokesman of the ADC, Bolaji Abdullahi, said ordinary Nigerians now hate the ruling party for the hardship it has brought upon them.

The ADC scoffed at comments credited to the APC National Chairman, Prof Nentawe
Yilwatda, that unnamed key ADC figures would be defecting to the ruling party next week.

The opposition party said Prof Yilwatda’s comments underscored a deep realisation by the APC that it cannot be saved even if all the governors in Nigeria defected to the ruling party.

“This is why even with all the governors and senators they have been bragging about, the APC is still desperate for ADC members.


“The truth remains that the APC realises that it has become the most hated party in Nigeria, and no amount of defections can save the party from Nigerians whose lives and livelihoods the ruling party has destroyed since it came to power.


“Like we have noted earlier, the recent gale of high-profile defections to the ruling party is properly understood by ordinary Nigerians as a gang-up against the people by a ruling elite who have left the people behind in abject poverty and are only interested in self-preservation even as their people wallow in misery.


“We wonder if the APC has run out of governors to seduce that it has now turned to shadowy references to unnamed ADC members? If these individuals are so ‘key’, let the chairman of the hated party mention their names,” the party said.

The ADC said there is nothing new in the game that the APC is playing, saying, “It is the same ruinous game that the PDP played at the height of its powers.”

According to the opposition party, the APC will also learn the bitter lesson that real democratic power lies with the people and not a few power merchants.