The All Progressives Congress (APC) has rejected claims by governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that it faces defeat in the 2027 general election, describing the opposition’s position as a projection of its own “doomed fate.”
APC National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, in a statement on Monday, said it was “laughable” for leaders of a party he described as “collapsed and rejected by Nigerians” to accuse others of lacking vision.
“The PDP has since collapsed and stands rejected by Nigerians,” Morka said. “Rather than focus on rescuing their terminally ill party, the governors are wasting time hurling baseless accusations against the APC.”
The PDP governors, who met in Zamfara on August 23, had issued a communique branding the ruling party as “without vision or direction” and predicting its rejection in 2027.
Morka countered that the APC’s recent by-election victories reflected growing confidence in President Bola Tinubu’s policies, noting that the party had won seats even in opposition strongholds such as Zamfara, Adamawa and Kano.
“It is infantile and irresponsible for PDP governors to hail democracy where they won and condemn it where they lost,” he said, accusing opposition states of sponsoring violence during elections.
He added that PDP governors had failed to provide credible policies in three election cycles and had instead become beneficiaries of Tinubu’s economic reforms.
“Federal allocation to states has more than doubled under this administration, with N2 trillion shared as of July 2025 — the highest in history,” he said. “Yet PDP governors continue to fail their citizens with poor governance.”
Morka said Nigeria would not return to “the dark days of PDP’s misrule” when states struggled to pay salaries, stressing that Tinubu had set the country on “a path of prosperity.”
He urged Nigerians to ignore what he described as the opposition’s “empty rhetoric” and continue to support the ruling party.
