The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has said the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) cannot be saved even if all governors eventually defect to the party.

This was after the National Chairman of the APC, Dr. Nentawe Yilwatda, at a stakeholders’ meeting in Jos, said that “key ADC figures” will be received into the APC next week.

ADC National Publicity Secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi, said Yilwatda's statement "underscores a deep realisation by the APC that it cannot be saved even if all the governors in Nigeria defected to the ruling party. This is why even with all the governors and senators they have been bragging about, the APC is still desperate for ADC members."

Abdullahi said that the truth remains that the APC has realised that it has become the most hated party in Nigeria, adding that no amount of defections can save the party from Nigerians whose lives and livelihoods the ruling party has destroyed since it came to power.

"Like we have noted earlier, the recent gale of high-profile defections to the ruling party is properly understood by ordinary Nigerians as a gang-up against the people by a ruling elite who have left the people behind in abject poverty and are only interested in self-preservation even as their people wallow in misery.

"We wonder if the APC has run out of governors to seduce, that it has now turned to shadowy references to unnamed ADC members? If these individuals are so “key”, let the chairman of the hated party mention their names.

"There is nothing new in the game that the APC is playing. It is the same ruinous game that the PDP played at the height of its powers.

"The APC will also learn the bitter lesson that real democratic power lies with the people and not a few power merchants," he said.

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