You are hallucinating, Ogun APC tells PDP over power takeover in 2027

From Laide Raheem, Abeokuta

The Ogun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has described a statement credited to the State Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Abayomi Tella, that the opposition party would disloge the ruling party from power in 2027 as wishful thinking and political hallucination.

The party equally said that Tella’s statement has clearly shown evidence of PDP’s fundamental misunderstanding of modern politics.

Tella at the weekend in an interview with newsmen had criticized the ruling party in Ogun for allegedly delivering bad governance to the people and vowed that the PDP would dislodge the ruling party from power in the state come 2027.

Responding to Tella, in a statement on Tuesday, the State Publicity Secretary of Ogun APC, Nuberu Adesanya Olufemi, however, dismissed the claims of the PDP chairman as hypocritical, adding that the opposition party “is trapped in retrogressive culture that prioritises individual ambition over party ideology and constitutional order”.

According to Nuberu, “the statement characterised the PDP’s posture as “hallucinatory pessimistic opportunism, which is a symptom of a party in terminal decline”.

“It is the height of hypocrisy for a party whose tenure is remembered for the misappropriation of the commonwealth, the abandonment of critical road projects, the collapse of educational standards, and a healthcare system left in ruins to offer commentary on progressive politics”, the APC spokesperson noted.

He stated further that the PDP is savagely crippled by self-inflicted, intractable crises nationwide and merely projecting its own failures onto a thriving party like the APC.

Nuberu said unlike the opposition party, the APC has laid a solid foundation of ideas, robust internal democratic traditions, and a visionary constitution.

“We urge the Ogun State PDP Chairman to consider a more productive path – he should perhaps seek enrollment in the APC. Here, he would receive the necessary ideological training and tutelage, with the potential for grassroots political engagement, starting perhaps at the councillorship level,” Nuberu stressed in the statement.

He, however, affirmed the commitment of the ruling party to its covenant with the people of Ogun State “to deliver sustained development, accountable governance, and a future built on promise, not pessimism”