The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, on Thursday expressed a “mixture of amusement and pity” over what it described as the newest attention-seeking outburst from the African Democratic Congress, ADC.
It dismissed ADC claims that President Bola “Tinubu’s APC” was attempting to silence the opposition forward of 2027.
The spokesman of the state arm of the social gathering, Mogaji Seye Oladejo, stated Tinubu can’t silence the ADC as a result of Nigerians have already turned away from the social gathering.
In a press release he signed, Oladejo stated: “Let’s set the document straight – you’ll be able to’t silence what Nigerians have already tuned out. The ADC’s assertion is the political equal of a mosquito accusing a lion of roaring too loudly. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the APC are too busy reshaping Nigeria’s future to hassle with political spectators who solely seem throughout election season to make noise and vanish after the depend.”
Oladejo added that whereas the APC is constructing stronger buildings, refining methods, and consolidating inside unity for extra result-oriented governance, the opposition led by the ADC is preoccupied with compiling the names of members to expel from “its already ravenous register,” noting that “its executives are actually extra involved about who would possibly escape than who would possibly be part of.”
He stated it’s laughable {that a} social gathering which exists solely on “newspaper pages and WhatsApp teams” claims to be “underneath menace.” “From whom, precisely? Nigerians have lengthy moved on from empty political vessels. The ADC’s model of politics has no base, no followers, and no relevance – only a press launch and a emblem which may quickly want a lacking particular person’s announcement,” he said.
In keeping with Oladejo: “Worse nonetheless, it’s a unusual and cynical model of politics for a celebration to start out making ready ready-made excuses for its imminent defeat earlier than the polls. The ADC’s technique appears to be accountable its opponents upfront whereas ignoring its personal tragic flaws, inside chaos, and full lack of grassroots connection. You don’t lose elections as a result of your opponents silenced you – you lose as a result of the folks don’t consider in you.
“Underneath President Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda, the APC is just too targeted on outcomes to be distracted by skilled complainers. The one factor being “silenced” in Nigeria at this time is failure, confusion, and the politics of bitterness that the opposition has perfected as an artwork kind.
“The ADC ought to cease hallucinating about persecution and begin studying primary political arithmetic. You can’t accuse the APC of silencing you when your individual silence is self-inflicted and deafening – the results of irrelevance, disunity, and absence of goal.
“If the ADC spent half as a lot time organising because it does issuing press statements, maybe Nigerians would possibly really bear in mind it exists. However for now, its largest electoral victory stays trending briefly on Twitter earlier than vanishing into the fog of political obscurity.”
Oladejo concluded that APC stays unwavering in its mission to construct a nation of alternatives, unity, and prosperity underneath President Tinubu, including: “We is not going to be distracted by political comedians searching for consideration by way of low-cost drama. As for the ADC – cease crying wolf; the nation has moved on.”
