The National Chairman of the Poepls Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Ahmed Markafi has said immediate future of Nigeria’s ruling All Progressives Congress is bleak.
“We have said it before and we stand behind what we said earlier. The APC is an alliance of strange bedfellows,” Makarfi said.
Markafi added: “We don’t see it lasting as a political party.”
Phspectator recalls that the APC was formed in 2013 after the then opposition parties Action Congress of Nigeria, Congress for Progressive Change, the All Nigerian People’s Party and few other smaller parties formed the party.
A few governors who were members of the then ruling party, the People’s Democratic Party, also defected to the APC and were joined by more people from the different parties, significantly from PDP, who were displeased with the government of Goodluck Jonathan, the then president.
But Makarfi, who has been a member of the PDP since its formation, insisted the APC was hurriedly formed and would soon fall apart.
He said the PDP was ready to depose the APC in 2019, noting that his party had put its “teething problems” behind it. The ruling party, he said, had become unpopular with Nigerians.
“We are more than ready. If we are ready to go to polls today, we are confident that PDP will return elected,” Makarfi said.
