Politicians left in PDP are undertakers, says APC
The All Progressives Congress has described party leaders remaining in the Peoples Democratic Party as undertakers waiting for the final burial of the opposition.
APC spokesman in Lagos, Seye Oladejo, in a statement on Saturday, said this while reacting to the recent defection of some PDP leaders into APC.
Mr Oladejo urged the former ruling party to stop downplaying “the wave of defections currently rocking its already fractured structure”.
He said, “The PDP’s claim that defections cannot break it is not only laughable but also betrays the party’s chronic state of denial , delusion, and self-deception. What is happening to the PDP today is not mere political migration. It is the inevitable consequence of years of internal deceit, lack of ideology, and serial betrayal among its leaders.
“When a house is built on quicksand, it does not take much for it to collapse. The ongoing exodus from the PDP is only a confirmation that even its loyalists have lost faith in a party that has consistently failed to reform itself or offer a credible alternative to Nigerians. The few remaining members of the PDP are perhaps the undertakers, staying behind only to perform the final rites and fittingly dispose of what remains of a once-dominant but now lifeless political carcass.”
According to him, the APC is not surprised at the wave of defections from the PDP, as the opposition party has only thrived on propaganda and empty rhetoric.
He claimed that the former ruling party had mismanaged the nation for 16 years before the coming of the APC. Mr Oladejo said that PDP could not suddenly reinvent itself as a credible opposition “when it remains a cesspool of confusion and leadership vacuum”.
“The recent defection of key figures from the PDP to the APC is a testament to the growing confidence in President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda. It will serve the PDP’s best interest to start learning to walk alone on the dark, bumpy road to 2027. The party is obviously over for the former ‘largest party in Africa’, and the sooner it confronts that reality, the less humiliating its final exit will be,” he added.
According to him, PDP should look inward, conduct an honest post-mortem of its failures, and come to terms with the reality that its relevance in Nigeria’s political space has drastically waned.
(NAN)
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