Osun APC mocks PDP over party’s crisis

From Lateef Dada, Osogbo

The All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun State have traded accusations over the crisis in the opposition party at the national level.

The APC Director of Media and Information, Kola Olabisi, in a statement on Sunday, said the situation in the PDP, where there have been suspensions and counter-suspensions of some of the principal members of its National Working Committee, is proof that things have fallen apart in the party and the centre has refused to hold.

Olabisi said PDP has acted in line with the suspension and counter-suspension of the NWC by announcing suspension of all party meetings across the state, following what it described as the brewing crisis within the national leadership of the party and the suspension of four key national officers.

“The state chapter of the PDP, however, quickly disowned the statement when the enormity of the damage done to the party was discovered. We have been vindicated with the turn of the unsavoury plight of the PDP right from the national to the ward level, where monumental crises have been the lot of the party.

“We can only advise our numerous dedicated supporters to shine their eyes very well when it comes to giving their support for political parties, as it is now glaring that the PDP, which could not manage its own affairs successfully, should not be trusted with the management of the affairs of about five million people of Osun State,” Olabisi said.

However, the PDP Director of Media & Publicity, Oladele Bamiji, said Olabisi’s statement was nothing but a lazy attempt to distract attention from the internal rot, disunity, and leadership collapse bedeviling the Osun APC.

“For the avoidance of doubt, the PDP in Osun State remains united, solid, and focused on delivering the dividends of democracy under the purposeful leadership of Governor Ademola Adeleke. No amount of falsehood or mischievous propaganda from a frustrated opposition can shake that foundation.

“We understand the dilemma of the APC, whose only strategy for 2026 is to pray that Governor Ademola Adeleke is disqualified from contesting. Such barren prayers have long been rejected by both God and the good people of Osun State. If the APC truly believes it has anything that looks like a fight, it should prepare for the ballot and stop clutching at imaginary crises in the PDP.

“The lazy gangsters parading themselves as APC leaders in Osun are only trying to polish their inevitable doomsday by hoping to be spoon-fed into power through some sponsored misunderstanding at the national level of our great party. Unfortunately for them, Osun people have moved on from the era of deceit, oppression, and political pickpocketing that defined the APC’s reign.

“We challenge the Osun APC to first put its house in order before pontificating about the affairs of the PDP. Their serial failures at all levels of governance, from the national disgrace of Nigeria’s collapsing economy to their disorganized state chapter, are enough testimony that the APC represents everything backward and chaotic,” Bamiji said.