Lagos APC Mocks PDP, Says Ibadan Convention Exposed Party’s Terminal Decline

The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has described the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as a party “on the brink of irrelevance” following its factional national convention held over the weekend in Ibadan, Oyo State.

In a statement on Sunday, the Lagos APC Publicity Secretary, Seye Oladejo, said the convention—expected to revive the opposition party—only exposed its deepening internal crisis and dwindling national influence.

Oladejo said the event turned out to be “a poorly scripted show of confusion and desperation,” adding that it further embarrassed the political class and confirmed what he called the PDP’s “waning relevance.”

He noted that the absence of several influential PDP figures, including sitting governors, spoke volumes about the party’s condition.

“When a house is collapsing, even its architects flee,” Oladejo said, claiming that delegates from at least 13 states boycotted the convention. He added that the refusal of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to monitor the exercise underscored its lack of legitimacy.

According to him, what should have symbolised a rebirth for the PDP instead signalled “a dignified farewell to a political structure that has outlived its usefulness.”

He argued that the party’s failure to address leadership decay, ideological drift, and successive electoral setbacks shows it is “fast approaching its political expiration date.”

“What should have symbolized renewal instead confirmed that the party is fast approaching its political expiration date. The PDP has now become a danger to our nascent democracy, not because it is strong, but because it has failed to provide a vibrant and constructive opposition,” he said.

Oladejo added that while the APC is consolidating reforms and strengthening institutions under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the PDP is “busy conducting the funeral rites of its own relevance.”

“The PDP today is no longer a national institution. It has become a refuge for internally displaced politicians, career defectors, and political daydreamers struggling for survival,” he said.

He concluded by challenging the opposition:
“Was this truly a convention, or the formal burial of a fading political empire? Whatever the answer, Nigerians have made their choice — progress under the APC, not nostalgia under a PDP drifting toward oblivion.”