Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has described the Peoples Democratic Celebration, PDP, as a celebration on the point of irrelevance, following its factional Nationwide Conference held over the weekend in Ibadan, Oyo State.
In an announcement on Sunday, the Lagos APC Publicity Secretary, Seye Oladejo, stated the conference, which was anticipated to sign a revival for the opposition celebration, as an alternative uncovered the PDP’s inside disarray and declining nationwide affect.
Oladejo argued that the gathering was a poorly scripted present of confusion and desperation, calling it a humiliation to the political class and a stark indication of the celebration’s waning relevance.
He highlighted that many distinguished PDP figures, together with incumbent governors, boycotted the conference, a transfer he stated spoke louder than any communiqué or decision.
“When a home is collapsing, even its architects flee,” Oladejo said, noting that delegates from not less than 13 states opted out of the occasion. He added that the refusal of the Unbiased Nationwide Electoral Fee, INEC, to observe the conference additional emphasised its lack of legitimacy.
Describing the conference as a dignified farewell to a political construction that has outlived its usefulness, Oladejo stated the PDP’s failure to deal with management rot, ideological vacancy, and years of electoral defeats confirmed its terminal decline.
He continued: “What ought to have symbolized renewal as an alternative confirmed that the celebration is quick approaching its political expiration date. The PDP has now change into a hazard to our nascent democracy, not as a result of it’s robust, however as a result of it has failed to offer a vibrant and constructive opposition.”
Oladejo additionally noticed that because the APC consolidates reforms, strengthens establishments, and delivers governance beneath President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the PDP seems preoccupied with conducting the funeral rites of its personal relevance.
“The PDP immediately is now not a nationwide establishment. It has change into a refuge for internally displaced politicians, profession defectors, and political daydreamers struggling for survival,” he stated.
He challenged the opposition: “Was this really a conference, or the formal burial of a fading political empire? Regardless of the reply, Nigerians have made their alternative, progress beneath the APC, not nostalgia beneath a PDP drifting towards oblivion.”
