Nigerians will not identify with APC’s failures in 2027- PDP Reconciliation Team to Southeast reveals

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Kenechukwu Ofomah

Awka

 

The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC will stand alone during the 2027 General Elections, as Nigerians will no longer want to identify with their failures, the Peoples Democratic Party has said.

Former governor of Osun State, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola stated this on Thursday, when he led members of the PDP National Reconciliation Committee on a courtesy visit to the Enugu State Governor, Dr Peter Mbah.

The team members, who were received at the Old Government House, were on a visit to brief the governor on the committee's progressive efforts and seek his support in addressing the long-standing crisis bedevilling the party.

The PDP National Reconciliation Committee Chairman, Oyinlola said the disunity in the party was one of the reasons the party lost the 2023 presidential election and other election cycles in the country.

He appealed to the grief-stricken members of the party in the Southeast to sheathe their swords and embrace the idea behind the peace and reconciliation process for the good of the party and the wellbeing of Nigerians.

According to him, “Nigerians had become disenchanted and disillusioned under the national ruling APC caused by the party’s anti-people policies, and the PDP was the only party that could rescue the country.”

In his response, the Enugu State Governor, Dr. Mbah, sued for peace and unity among the members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the Southeast Zone and the entire country, urging aggrieved members to seize the opportunity presented by the ongoing reconciliation process to come back to their fold.

Mbah, who described Enugu as the bastion of PDP, carrying the party’s banner with pride, enjoined the committee to ensure genuine and lasting peace in their efforts to bring back aggrieved members into the party.

He insisted that the only way the party could win elections was through a united front built on true reconciliation and justice.

“There is no way we can afford to go into a battle with a  divided house. So, we must, as a matter of utmost urgency, integrate and constitute ourselves as a whole, which is why the task you are carrying out on behalf of our party is very critical and sensitive and it is one that requires patience, tact and absolute wisdom,” he said.

Mbah further added that the party in the Southeast operated with some peculiarity of brotherhood whose differences could easily be resolved as siblings and members of one family, stressing that the party in the zone had done extensive work to ensure those who left the party were brought back.

“I have no doubt in mind that those our brothers who are just waiting for moments like this will be brought back to where they belong and we can forge a strong alliance going into the next general elections,” the governor stressed.

Also speaking, the state party chairman, Dr Martin Chukwunwike, said the reconciliation move would rejig the party's ongoing efforts in the state and bring back disgruntled members.

He expressed optimism in the leadership style of governor  in the state, noting that the party was already witnessing mass return of members who left for other parties.