The All Progressives Congress (APC) has lashed out at governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), accusing them of failure and hypocrisy following their recent meeting in Zamfara State.
In a statement issued on Monday, August 25, 2025, by its National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, the ruling party dismissed the PDP Governors’ Forum communiqué which had accused the APC of lacking vision, pursuing undemocratic practices, and being bound to lose support in the 2027 general elections.
Morka described the PDP as a party “in deep comatose, crippled by intractable crisis, and reduced to an unrecognizable shadow of its old self.” He said it was “morbidly comical” for PDP governors to accuse the APC of failures, insisting that their remarks better describe the opposition party itself.
According to him, rather than “making frivolous allegations and innuendos,” PDP governors should concentrate on reviving their “terminally ailing party.”
The APC spokesperson argued that the party’s “dominant victory” in recent bye-elections demonstrated the public’s support for President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope agenda and programmes. He condemned the PDP for celebrating democracy only where it won elections and discrediting the process where it lost.
Morka further stressed that the APC’s victories in non-APC states such as Zamfara, Adamawa, and Kano underscored the credibility of the electoral process and proved the popularity of the ruling party despite alleged “state-sponsored thuggery and violence” by opposition governments.
He urged PDP governors to accept the bye-election results as “a categorical declaration of loss of confidence” in their party by Nigerians, adding that the opposition had failed to offer any credible alternatives in the last three general election cycles.
“Nigeria will not return to the dark era of PDP-led federal administration when many state governments were literally bankrupt and unable to meet even their basic wage bills,” the statement read.
The ruling party assured Nigerians that President Tinubu’s administration had “paved a new and clear path of prosperity” and called on citizens to ignore what it described as “empty and misleading rhetoric” from PDP governors.
