The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has described the
newly formed opposition coalition party as hoaxers and self-obsessed merchants
of vendetta.
This was contained in a statement by the party’s spokesman,
Felix Morka, on Thursday.
He called the unveiling of the coalition a roll call of
Nigeria’s me-or-nothing politicians, who equate their selfish interest with the
interest of Nigerians, and who cannot bear to be out of the corridors of power
and patronage.
He said the coalition members are desperate to grab power
for themselves by guile and subterfuge, adding that they lay claim to an
immoral birthright to power, even while draped in an odious record of betrayal
of public trust and rapacious public service.
Recall that the opposition coalition on Wednesday adopted
the African Democratic Congress, ADC, as a platform to lock horns with the APC
in the forthcoming 2027 general elections.
The new opposition coalition party also chose former Senate
President, David Mark, as its interim National Chairman, with former Osun State
governor, Rauf Aregbesola, as interim National Secretary.
Reacting to the unveiling, the APC said the speech delivered
by David Mark was disgracefully vacant, without substance or purpose, adding
that it was nothing but stitches of untruths and baseless allegations against
the APC-led administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
“From beginning to end, Senator Mark said nothing about the
purpose of the so-called coalition other than a loud declaration of desperation
for power. What value does the coalition bring to Nigerians? Why should any
Nigerian be concerned about a coalition of a bunch of egotistical maniacs for
whom power and patronage are the oxygen on which their lives depend?
“One would have expected that, after months of vacillating
between the devil and the deep blue sea, in search of a host platform, Senator
Mark and his co-travelers would take Nigerians seriously enough by telling them
what their coalition would do differently regarding the administration’s bold
economic and sectoral policy reforms.
“What key alternative policy approaches would the coalition
implement, and with what prospects of success compared to the high value and
transformative impact of the administration’s reform policies?
“What exactly is the philosophical or ideological leaning of
the coalition or its new party, aside from desperation for power at all cost,
by all means necessary and unnecessary?
“Senator Mark’s speech was loud in its silence to these
questions because himself and his coalition partners are disgracefully
clueless, without a care or concern about Nigeria and Nigerians, only filled
with wolfish quest for power for their own mendacious end,” the statement read
in part.
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