By Desire Emmanuel
The African Democratic Congress (ADC) on Sunday, October 19, said the All Progressives Congress (APC) has become the most hated party in Nigeria and no amount of defections can save the party from Nigerians whose lives and livelihoods it has destroyed since it came to power.
The ADC said this through a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr Bolaji Abdullahi, while responding to the statement by the National Chairman of the APC, Professor Nentawe Yilwatda, who said some prominent members of the ADC will defect to the ruling party this week.
The APC National Chairman was said to have spoken at the stakeholders meeting of the party in Jos, Plateau State, where he also disclosed that a very prominent member of the opposition party had concluded his “medicals” and would join the party “very soon.”
However, while reacting to the position of the APC chairman, the ADC said the statement underscores a deep realisation by the ruling party that it cannot be saved even if all the governors in Nigeria defected to it.
According to the statement: “The attention of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) has been drawn to the declaration by the National Chairman of the ruling APC, Nentawe Yilwatda, at a stakeholders’ meeting in Jos that “key ADC figures” will be received into the APC this week.
“This statement underscores a deep realisation by the ruling party 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.
“There is nothing new in the game that 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 real democratic power lies with the people and not a few power merchants.”
