The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has declared that Nigeria will not return to what it called the “dark, wasteful, and inglorious era” of opposition rule ahead of the 2027 elections.
In a statement issued on Monday by its spokesman, Mogaji Seye Oladejo, the party said certain political actors now operating under the African Democratic Congress (ADC) have emerged from the shadows and should not be taken seriously by Nigerians.
Oladejo said these opposition figures are not reformers from the margins but old hands who have occupied the highest offices in the land as governors, ministers, senators, vice presidents, and party chieftains. He argued that they had decades to use power well but wasted those opportunities.
“Where was this newfound patriotism when they held office? Where was this moral outrage when public institutions were weakened?” Oladejo asked.
He described the opposition coalition as a conclave of displaced power brokers and frustrated office seekers united by desperation rather than vision and by grievance rather than principle.
Oladejo said the opposition lacks democratic credibility, adding that a group that cannot inspire internal consensus without rancour has no moral standing to preach democracy to Nigerians.
He said Nigeria has moved beyond the old politics of entitlement, elite rotation, and cynical power recycling. He added that under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the country is undergoing bold reforms that are difficult but necessary.
Oladejo said 2027 will not be a pathway back to regression. He listed several things Nigeria will not return to, including the era of squandered opportunities, policy somersaults, and leadership by rhetoric.
He warned the opposition that subtle blackmail, arm-twisting tactics, and mercenary rhetoric will not confer power on what he called a coalition of yesterday’s men.
“No one owes the opposition a rescue from its self-inflicted descent into irrelevance,” Oladejo said.
He concluded that the years of the locusts are gone forever and, by the grace of the Nigerian electorate, shall remain buried.
