A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress in Abia State, Chief Nnamdi Orji, has said that efforts by the African Democratic Alliance to midwife a coalition against the ruling All Progressives Congress will fail.
He said that the ADC would only end up as a bridge that would lead the country to no meaningful destination.
Orji stated this in a chat with our correspondent in Ohafia, following the recent fusion of the former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s Coalition for Nigeria Movement with the ADC ahead of the 2019 general elections.
The ADC can never be a threat to the APC
He said going by the APC’s turning around of the economy of the country from a near total collapse, after 16 years of the Peoples Democratic Party’s rule, the people would rather stick to the ruling party.
He said, “The ADC can never be a threat to the APC. It does not have the capacity to do it, no matter who or any organisations that collapsed into it. We are fully on ground across the country,” he noted.
The APC chieftain argued that with the bad experience the people had with the PDP administration, “they cannot afford to entrust their future again in the hands of untested leaders, as in the ADC.”
Orji, who was also the All Progressives Grand Alliance candidate for the Arochukwu/Ohafia Federal Constituency in the last general elections, said the experience of the 16 years of the PDP was enough to last the people a lifetime.
“We saw an administration that was riddled with corruption, electoral fraud, impunity, bogus contracts, and not only condoned illegalities, but also failed to deliver on its promises,” he lamented.
Orji maintained that under the APC, the people had been witnessing a positive and focused leadership.
According to him, the congress was not only peaceful, free and fair, “but it also witnessed a large turn-out of who is who in the party, despite the stumbling blocks put by our detractors in other parties.”
Similarly, a former chairman of Ohafia Local Government Council, Mr. Emeka Kalu, said with the success of the congresses, the party was on its way to capturing the state in 2019.
“This is the time to prove that PDP has never won any election in the state and we are going to change the narrative because we have broken its rigging machinery,” he added.
While, declaring that he would contest the Ohafia South State Constituency election into the House of Assembly in 2019, he insisted that he would be the candidate to beat, if nominated.
Also, Mr. Emeka Nnoke, who emerged as the chairman in the congress, said, “The party has begun the march to flush out the PDP from the state for the good of the people.”
