The Labour Party has alleged that the All Progressives Congress is buying up opposition political parties to clear the path for President Bola Tinubu’s consensus candidacy in 2027.
According to the LP’s Director General of Mobilisation and Integration, Marcel Ngogbehei on Sunday, the APC has compromised two major opposition parties in the North and East, which control one state each in their regions.
Ngogbehei claimed that the APC is attempting to turn Nigeria into a one-party system by hijacking opposition parties, using internal crises to lure members into the APC, and reducing the strength of opposition parties, according to The Sun.
He accused the APC of using poverty as a weapon to buy votes in 2027, citing their lack of significant achievements and reliance on vote-buying, thuggery, and election rigging.
Ngogbehei urged genuine lovers of a working and prosperous Nigeria to stand firm with the LP’s National Working Committee led by Julius Abure and Peter Obi, who have been tested and trusted in the 2023 general elections.
“The case in hand is the NLC Transition Committee which we suspect is an APC special purpose vehicle to hijack the Labour Party and there’s countless others in various opposition parties.
“The APC and Tinubu are making efforts to turn Nigeria into a one party system. They are busy, working out machinations and trying to buy up political parties, both in the East and in the North with the aim of weakening the opposition ahead of the 2027 general election.
“Tinubu is trying to replicate what Abacha did by pressuring parties to adopt him as a consensus candidate or field candidate who cannot give them a run for their seat. But, this will not work, Nigerians are wiser now. The poverty in the land which was brought by the APC will be a force against the party in 2027.
“Instead of focusing on delivering good governance, the APC is busy finalising schemes to buy up opposition political parties and party members just to sell their unsellable candidate to Nigerians in 2027.”
He suggested that the APC was working hard to use hunger as a weapon to get the votes of poor Nigerians in 2027.
“If you think that the APC is ready for a fair contest in 2027, you are wasting your time. They have succeeded in impoverishing Nigerians so that they can easily bribe them with cups of rice and beans and a few thousands of Naira for their votes.
“The APC has not recorded any significant achievement to convince Nigerians to vote for them in 2027, they are most likely banking on vote buying, thuggery and election rigging to win election as they did in 2023, but they will receive the shock of their lives because Nigerians are wiser now.”
