The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has been advised by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to quit dreaming about winning Nigeria’s presidential election in 2023.
The PDP National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, announced this view on Wednesday in reaction to an earlier claim by the APC National Chairman, Abdullahi Adamu, that the ruling party now had a 43 million membership base and so cannot lose the elections.
Adamu made the claim at a meeting with Joanna Tarnawska, the Polish Ambassador to Nigeria, in his Abuja office.
In reaction, Ologunagba stated that Nigerians are wiser and will not vote for the APC in 2023. He went on to say that the people of the country are tired of the current administration’s suffering and punishment and are ready to vote for a better option.
The PDP spokesman told the APC Chairman that the votes and support his party claims to have are fictitious and the result of hallucination.
“Who are the 43 million Nigerians the APC is banking on? Are they the ones that are hungry, whose lives have been cut short or whose children have been kidnapped? Abdullahi Adamu is hallucinating. That’s how I can describe it.
“(The) APC is a party that came in as an SPV (Special Purpose Vehicle). They came into governance with lies, fraud and deceit. They have forgotten that Nigerians are wiser now. The truth is that every SPV is for a purpose but this one is liquidating. The lies of 2015 will not help them anymore.
“Are they talking about imaginary 43 million Nigerians who can’t travel by road or rail and whose children cannot go to school because of the ASUU strike?” he queried.
The PDP spokesman went on to say that since the APC came to power in 2015, the party and its government have only given Nigerians misery and pain.
He further stated that their reign of terror will end in 2023.
“Nigerians are wiser now. We knew that we made a mistake in going to them. All they brought us was chaos and they will face the waterloo in 2023.
“They even have a presidential candidate who announced openly on national television that he brought the pain that the APC government headed by President Muhammadu Buhari represents on Nigerians. In a saner environment, that presidential candidate should be apologising to Nigerians,” he stated.
