Two key opposition parties – the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and African Democratic Congress (ADC) are locked in a battle for supremacy.
Following a dig at the PDP by the ADC, the former ruling party yesterday fired back at the ADC now taken over by coalition politicians led by Atiku Abubakar.
The PDP accused some ADC members of being ‘’known agents of the All Progressives Congress (APC)’’ whose goal was to dislodge the ruling party from power in 2027.
It specifically referred to ADC spokesman Bolaji Abdullahi, whom it described as an APC-indoctrinated individual, as being pivotal to the ADC attacks
Abdullahi had told a national television station that the PDP can hardly play an opposition role effectively because it was never designed to function as an opposition party
“PDP wasn’t built to be an opposition party; it was built to govern. So when it found itself in a strange place in 2015, everything began to spiral downward,” Abdullahi, a former minister said.
But in a statement yesterday by its National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, the PDP described Abdullahi’s comments as reckless and revealing.
The PDP accused him of acting out a script to try to derail its growing momentum as the nation’s main opposition party ahead of the 2027 general elections.
The party said “the APC-indoctrinated Abdullahi ought to give more attention to the ruling party as a former insider than attacking the PDP.”
The statement reads: “The PDP, as the leading opposition party, commanding the respect, loyalty and solidarity of overwhelming majority of Nigerians across the country and which is also the broad-based platform driving the aspiration of Nigerians to oust the APC in 2027 will not descend to join issues with the ADC or any other opposition party in the country for that matter.’’
