2023: PDP can’t replace us, says APC

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has dismissed the plans by the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to return to power in 2023.

The ruling party, on Thursday, stated that going by PDP’s antecedents, it has nothing to offer Nigerians.

National Secretary of the Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC), Sen. John Akpanudoedehe, said in a free and fair election there is no way PDP can win the Presidency because the electorate are intelligent.

Akpanudoedehe spoke in Abuja while responding to the vote of confidence passed in the Governor Mai Mala Buni-led CECPC by State Caretaker Chairmen of the party at the APC National Secretariat in Abuja.

“I learnt that the new PDP chairman made a prophecy that we will scatter before April.

“Let me send a message to PDP, if we are talking about replacing APC, it can never be the PDP because Nigerians are too intelligent. Nigerians will still choose APC. Talk is cheap, even when they sponsored crisis throughout Nigeria, we won most by-elections.

“We inherited insurgency and we have dealt with it. As we speak, not one inch of Nigeria’s territory is being taken over by any group. When PDP were in government, they took over everywhere but today, it is different

“Maybe because the President is not the talking type. I am challenging anyone to show me any social intervention programme better than this government. People are collecting alerts for COVID-19 palliatives. Youths, women, civil servants are collecting it,” Akpanudoedehe stated.

Earlier in his remarks, the Caretaker Chairman of the Delta State APC Chapter, Prophet Jones Erue, who spoke on behalf of the Caretaker State Chairmen of the party, said that they came to express their loyalty to the leadership of the Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee led by Governor Buni.

He said that all the caretaker chairmen have resolved to stand with the Caretaker Committee and give it every support to succeed in its assignment.

The APC Caretaker State Chairmen rejected any attempt to destabilise and change the leadership of the party by unconstitutional methods.

“We don’t know the youth who claimed to have changed the leadership of the party. They are not part of us,” he said.