2019: APC suffering from ‘pre-defeat trauma’— PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Sunday said that the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) party is currently suffering from “pre-defeat trauma ahead of the 2019 elections”.

The PDP also described the APC as being on the “throes of death”.

It said that as a result, APC’s panic-stricken leadership has resorted to fabrications and cheap blackmail against those leaving their “sinking ship in droves”.

The PDP added that the “now shattered APC has become intensely nervous and chaotic over the soaring popularity of the PDP as well as the surge of Nigerians, across board, into our fold as a repositioned and rebranded party.”

These were stated by the PDP national publicity secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, in a statement on Sunday.

“We are therefore not surprised that the APC, out of frustration, has recourse to sponsoring of spurious publications filled with deceptions, fabrications and lies against the PDP.

“The APC is particularly unsettled by the huge successes recorded by the Liyel Imoke-led PDP Contact and Integration Committee, in seamlessly galvanizing alliances among stakeholders across other parties, including those returning from the overtly dysfunctional and derelict APC.

“The APC is further disconcerted by the spirit of accommodation, agreement and oneness of purpose that pervade the alliances among old, new and returning members of the PDP in our key structure across all the states of the federation, particularly in Sokoto, Kogi, Kwara and Kano states, where all new and retuning members have been accorded very warm reception.

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“We know that the APC will stop at nothing in its sneaky efforts to cause confusion among our members, including suggesting that there are disagreements where none exists,” he said.

The opposition party called on Nigerians to continue in their rally with the PDP as the epicenter of a new broad-based political engagement to rescue the nation and return her to the path of peace, unity and economic prosperity, come 2019.

The party’s statement is coming on the heels of some members of the APC, like Senate Dino Melaye, declaring intention to join the PDP, and the speculations that the Reformed APC faction of the ruling party may soon join the opposition party.

 

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