Please Stay In Your Party, @APCNigeria Tells @PdpNigeria Leaders They Are No Longer Welcome

by Musa Abdullahi

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has told members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) seeking to join its party that it would not accommodate them.

Advising PDP faithful to accept the “hard reality” that they have lost power, Lai Mohammed, the party’s national publicity secretary, taunted his PDP counterparts to rebuild their party to play its new role as the main opposition party.

“PDP leaders and members are falling over themselves shamelessly and swearing undying allegiance to the APC,” Lai said in a statement.

“Well, in case they did not get the message of the president-elect and our national chairman, we want to repeat it in very blunt terms: PDP leaders and members, you are not welcome in APC.

“Please stay in your party, but if – as we suspect – you cannot survive in opposition, then, take a walk, quit politics.” Mohammed further accused the PDP of lacking the capacity to make constructive criticism but only known for wasting the country’s resources.

“The truth of the matter is that the PDP is scared stiff of being in opposition. We don’t blame them as they have neither the capacity nor the commitment to be in opposition,” the statement read.

“A party that stood for nothing but looting and rent collection will naturally be afraid of being in opposition, where there is nothing to loot or rent to collect.”