‘They’re Undertakers’ – APC Mocks PDP, Says Defections Signal Final Burial of Opposition

• The APC has mocked the PDP, calling its remaining members “undertakers” presiding over the opposition’s final collapse.

• APC spokesman Seye Oladejo said the wave of defections into the ruling party proves that Nigerians have lost faith in the PDP, which he described as “a lifeless political carcass.”

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described remaining leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as “undertakers waiting for the final burial” of the opposition party following a wave of high-profile defections across the country.

In a statement issued on Saturday in Lagos, the APC spokesman, Seye Oladejo, said the PDP should stop downplaying the series of defections rocking its “already fractured structure.”

“The PDP’s claim that defections cannot break it is not only laughable but also betrays the party’s chronic state of denial, delusion, and self-deception,” Oladejo said.

According to him, the mass exodus from the opposition party is “not mere political migration” but “the inevitable consequence of years of internal deceit, lack of ideology, and serial betrayal among its leaders.”

“When a house is built on quicksand, it does not take much for it to collapse,” he added. “The ongoing defections from the PDP are confirmation that even its loyalists have lost faith in a party that has consistently failed to reform itself or offer a credible alternative to Nigerians.”

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Oladejo further ridiculed the opposition, saying:

“The few remaining members of the PDP are perhaps the undertakers, staying behind only to perform the final rites and fittingly dispose of what remains of a once-dominant but now lifeless political carcass.”

The APC spokesman maintained that the ruling party was not surprised by the defections, noting that the PDP “thrived on propaganda and empty rhetoric” and had yet to recover from its mismanagement of Nigeria during its 16 years in power before 2015.

Oladejo added that the recent wave of defections into the APC showed growing confidence in President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda.

“The recent defection of key figures from the PDP to the APC is a testament to the growing confidence in President Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda,” he said. “It will serve the PDP’s best interest to start learning to walk alone on the dark, bumpy road to 2027.”

He concluded that the PDP should conduct “an honest post-mortem of its failures” and accept that its influence in Nigeria’s political space “has drastically waned.”